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1	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 $6.27! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	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 $8.28! new only from $10.80! \| first editions
3	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 Nearly half a century of illuminating prose by the Nobel Laureate is collected here, offering a sustained encounter with one of the late 20th century's most important literary voices. Czeslaw Milosz writes ethical statements, biographical and autobiographical sketches, criticism, and political pieces, displaying his eclectic erudition and ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $5.42! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Issa Valley more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist Milosz's novel about a boy growing up in Lithuania has some parallels with his own story. see all copies from $3.64! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	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 $4.00! new only from $11.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Captive Mind V724 more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
7	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 $8.26! signed copies \| first editions
8	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 $1.99! new only from $21.41! \| first editions \| SVS
9	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 $93.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Collected Poems more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz add to wishlist "The core of the major themes of Milosz's poetry is the unbearable realization that a human being is not able to grasp his experience, and the more that time separates him from this experience, the less become his chances to comprehend it".--Joseph Brodsky. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	A Treatise on Poetry more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass (Translator), Czesaw Miosz add to wishlist This book-length poem by Nobel Prize recipient Milosz addresses Eastern European poetry in the 20th century. A native of Poland, Milosz offers insight on Poland before the war, through the turbulence of Nazism, into the poet's emigration to France, and on into his experiences in the United States. In this meditation on history and the individual ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $76.41! \| first editions
12 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 $27.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The History of Polish Literature, Updated Edition more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz add to wishlist This book is a survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Czeslaw Milosz updated this edition in 1983 and added an epilogue to bring the discussion up to date. see all copies from $14.85! new only from $32.19! \| SVS
14	Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision more books like this by Czesaw Miosz, 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 $2.55! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Beginning with My Street: Essays & Recollections more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz, Madeline Levine (Translator) add to wishlist In this gathering of essays and reminiscences, written over a span of three decades, the Nobel prize-winning Polish Poet traces a kind of informal autobiography against the street map of his home city of Wilno. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
16	Sel Poems Milosz PB more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz add to wishlist This selection of poetry spans several decades and features poems written during various periods of the poet's literary career, including those from World War II. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	A Year of the Hunter more books like this by Czesaw Miosz, 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 $1.99! new only from $20.00! \| first editions
18	The Seizure of Power more books like this by Czesaw Miosz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	Nobel Lecture by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz add to wishlist see all copies from $2.99! first editions
20	Bells Winter more books like this by Czesaw Miosz, Czeslaw Milosz, Ecco add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21	Separate Notebks by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz, Robert Pinsky (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22 view cover	Road-Side Dog more books like this by Czesaw Miosz, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass (Translator) add to wishlist Prose and poetry from the Nobel Prize-winning Polish émigré writer. The Los Angeles Times chose this as one of the best books of poetry of 1998. see all copies from $2.39! new only from $69.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz more books like this by Ewa Czarnecka, Aleksander Fiut, Richard Lourie add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! first editions
24	Happy as a Dog's Tail by Czesaw Miosz add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! first editions
25 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 $5.62! \| first editions \| SVS

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