Collected Poems

Czeslaw Milosz

ISBN 10: 0880011742 / ISBN 13: 9780880011747

Verlag: Ecco, 1990

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly! Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers DBV.0880011742.G

Inhaltsangabe:

To find my home in one sentence, concise, as if hammered in metal. No to enchant anybody. Not to earn a lasting name in posterity. An unnamed need for order, for rhythm, for form, which three words are opposed to chaos and nothingness.

-- Czeslaw Milosz

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911. He worked with the Polish resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and was later stationed in Paris and Washington, DC, as a Polish cultural attaché. He defected to France in 1951, and in 1960 he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in 2004.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Collected Poems
Verlag: Ecco
Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good