Facing the River by Czeslaw Milosz (1995, Hardcover) 
Facing the River by Czeslaw Milosz (1995, Hardcover)

 
Facing the River by Czeslaw Milosz (1995, Hardcover)

Publisher: Ecco Pr
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0880014040
ISBN-13: 9780880014045
Product ID: EPID347335
Description: Most of the poems in this collection resulted from a visit the poet made in 1989 to the Issa River valley he had grown up in and not seen for fifty years. This is the river Milosz faced while exploring ancient themes. He reflects upon th...
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Synopsis
Most of the poems in this collection resulted from a visit the poet made in 1989 to the Issa River valley he had grown up in and not seen for fifty years. This is the river Milosz faced while exploring ancient themes. He reflects upon the nature of imagination, human experience, good and evil--and celebrates the wonders of life on earth.

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Publication Date:1995-03-01

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Height:9.3 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:10.4 oz

Publisher's Note
In the spring of 1989, exactly fifty years after he last saw - and seemed irrevocably cut-off from - the river valley he grew up in, Czeslaw Milosz was invited to return for a visit. The new government of independent Lithuania welcomed him back to the region of his childhood. Many of the poems in Facing the River record his experiences there. Here, the river of the Issa Valley symbolizes the river of time and also the river of mythology over which one cannot step twice. This is the river Milosz, the 1980 Nobel Laureate for Literature, faces while exploring ancient themes. He reflects upon the nature of imagination, human experience, good and evil, and the wonders of life on earth. A poet of immense moral authority, in these later poems, the poems of old age, of a long look back at the catastrophic upheavals of the twentieth century, Milosz writes with amazing clarity and a precise vision. Despite the preponderance of his themes, he writes with the lightness of touch found only in the great masters. Using his own translations and those of Robert Hass, with whom he has worked closely, this volume achieves the one task that seems necessary and at the same time impossible - to invent a language comprehensible "to both the living and the dead".

Industry Reviews
"Readers who love Milosz's work can only hope that it is not finished. Those like myself who see the world differently because of him hope he will continue to stand facing the river, and tell us what he sees."
New York Review of Books - Michael Ignatieff

"The work of Milosz reminds us of how much power poetry gains from bearing within itself an unforced, natural, and long-ranging memory of past customs; a sense of the strata of ancient and modern history; a wide visual experience; and a knowledge of many languages and literatures."
Helen Vendler

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