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1	A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz (Editor) add to wishlist Organized under 11 headings, including "Epiphany", "Nature", "The Secret of a Thing", "Travel", "Places", "The Moment", these poems brilliantly render a variety of experience palpable and immediate. It brings together 500 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages by more than 200 poets. see all copies from $2.70! new only from $8.96! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Captive Mind more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Second Space: New Poems by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist Concerned with questions of aging and mortality, "A Second Space" furthers 93-year-old Nobel laureate Milosz's reputation as "arguably the greatest living poet" (Edward Hirsch, "New York Times Book Reviews"). see all copies from $2.95! new only from $5.63! \| first editions \| SVS
4	New and collected poems, 1931-2001 more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist The authoritative edition of the work of one of the world's greatest living poets. This volume brings together a selection of Milosz's poetry from his early youth in Poland to poems marking a new century. see all copies from $9.06! new only from $9.82! \| first editions \| SVS
5	To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Bogdana Carpenter (Introduction by), Madeline Levine (Introduction by) add to wishlist Collects five decades of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning writer, covering topics including war, human nature, faith, communism and Polish culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.87! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Issa Valley more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist Reissued to mark Milosz's 90th birthday, THE ISSA VALLEY is a brilliant evocation of life on the Polish-Russian borders in the early 20th century, an extraordinary piece of nature-writing and a profound meditation on childhood. Milosz's book is acclaimed as an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our modern affliction (where compelling ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $9.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Collected Poems 1956-1998 more books like this by Zbigniew Herbert, Alissa Valles (Editor), Czeslaw Milosz (Translator) add to wishlist This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, "String of Light," in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, "Epilogue Of the Storm." "Collected Poems: 1956-1998," as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's "SSelected Poems," is "bound for a ... see all copies from $7.90! new only from $10.89! \| SVS
8	Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist The autobiography of the Nobel laureate Before he emigrated to the United States, Czeslaw Milosz lived through many of the social upheavals that defined the first half of the twentieth century. Here, in this compelling account of his early life, the author sketches his moral and intellectual history from childhood to the early fifties, providing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Visions from San Francisco Bay more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in "The Nation," called "remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have understood and judged our state . . . Their subject is the frailty of modern civilization." see all copies from $4.45! new only from $9.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Unattainable Earth, more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass add to wishlist Begun in the winter of 1955 and completed in the spring of 1956, Treatise on Poetry is a brilliant meditative poem fully expressive of the powers that have made Milosz one of our greatest writers. Expertly translated, the poem is divided into four parts -- Europe at the turn of the century, the condition of Polish culture between the two world ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $66.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The Land of Ulro more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist Milosz's memoir writes about his childhood in Lithuania, his years in Poland during the Nazi occupation, and his concerns about our society and its future. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $84.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Postwar Polish Poetry more books like this by Czesaw Miosz, Czeslaw Milosz (Editor) add to wishlist This expanded edition of "Postwar Polish Poetry" (which was originally published in 1965) presents 125 poems by 25 poets, including Czeslaw Milosz and other Polish poets living outside Poland. The stress of the anthology is on poetry written after 1956, the year when the lifting of censorship and the berakdown of doctrines provoked and explosion ... see all copies from $3.47! new only from $3.75! \| SVS
13	The history of Polish literature more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist see all copies from $11.74! new only from $37.38! \| first editions
14 view cover	Milosz's ABC's more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Madeline Levine (Translator) add to wishlist Nobel Prize-winning poet Milosz compiles a series of short pieces about a host of topics including Camus and Baudelaire, money, happiness, and meditations on many aspects of his important literary life. The entries, concerning the many phases of his 60-year career, are arranged alphabetically. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Facing the river more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist Milosz's poems move forward while attending to his past, and deal with how his Lithuania, and Europe at large, maintain their habit of partial memory and forgetting. In these poems, such as the sequence "Lithuania. After Fifty-Two Years", "Wanda" (about the painter Wanda Telakowska), "Sarajevo", "Translating Anna Swir on an Island in the Caribbean ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Witness of Poetry more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist 'Milosz is at all times direct, even simple. He has the ability to return the pleasures of poetry to ordinary readers, and in his prose, as here, he makes you suspect that the great intellectual sin of our time may be a fear of the obvious.'Vanity Fair see all copies from $3.24! new only from $11.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	My Century more books like this by Aleksander Wat, Czeslaw Milosz (Foreword by) add to wishlist The author recalls his involvement with Communism as editor of an influential literary review in pre-war Poland, the magazine's banning and his first imprisonment. He describes his disenchantment with Communism and his flight east with his family at the outbreak of World War II. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.68! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Lucifer Unemployed more books like this by Aleksander Wat, Lillian Vallee (Translator), Czeslaw Milosz (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.94! \| first editions
19 view cover	Legends of Modernity: Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942-1943 more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Madeline Levine (Translator), Mr. Jaroslaw Anders (Introduction by) add to wishlist Now available in English for the first time, this collection brings together some of noted poet Czeslaw Milosz's early essays and letters, composed in German-occupied Warsaw during the winter of 1942-43. see all copies from $3.18! new only from $3.18! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Emperor of the Earth more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist This stimulating collection of essays, mostly concerned with subjects taken from Slavic literatures, is at once scholarly and reflective. The volume opens with a true story, "Brognart," which is a confession of the author's remorse based on conflict with French intellectuals. "Science Fiction and the Coming of the Antichrist" concerns Vladimir ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Provinces more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist "Provinces", Czeslaw Milosz's first book of poems since "The Collected Poems" (Penguin, 1988), continues his investigations into the urgent themes that have absorbed his work from the beginning. These poems are about what it is to be human in a world of provinces, shifting borders, conflict and crisis. From the perspective of old age - he is now ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Year of the Hunter more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Madeline Levine (Translator) add to wishlist The diary of one year in Milosz's life, 1987-88, concerns itself as much with his experience of remembering the events as with the actual events themselves. see all copies from $3.01! new only from $8.95! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Catharsis: On the Art of Medicine more books like this by Andrzej Szczeklik, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator), Czeslaw Milosz (Foreword by) add to wishlist The ancient Greeks used the term catharsis for the cleansing of both the body by medicine and the soul by art. In this inspiring book, internationally renowned cardiologist Andrzej Szczeklik draws deeply on our humanistic heritage to describe the artistry and the mystery of being a doctor. Moving between examples ancient and contemporary, ... see all copies from $2.08! new only from $8.30! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Bells in Winter more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Lillian Vallee (Translator) add to wishlist A collection of introspective poems that examine self, society, history, and the tormenting question of humankind's place in a world without a personal God. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.98! \| first editions
25 view cover	Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska by Wislawa Szymborska, Joanna Trzeciak (Translator), Czeslaw Milosz (Introduction by) add to wishlist This collection represents the best work of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Wislawa Szymborska. Including an introduction by Czeslaw Miosz, this volume samples the full range of Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty and the illusory character of art. Her voice emerges through Joanna Tzeciak's elegant ... see all copies from $5.55! new only from $10.24! \| first editions \| SVS

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