And, before he noticed, year after year. Yet it will be here long after I perish. And he knew there was no use crying out, for none of them would save him. The Captive Mind , Vintage Books, 1990. The Issa's Valley , Aims International Books, 1996.
Book celebrates the mythology and folklore of the local peasantry in rural Lithuanian.
A Search for Self Definition , University of California Press, 1981. Milosz's autobiography describes his childhood in rural Lithuania and his education in Vilnius, his experiences of the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, his flirtation with Marxism, and defection to the West. New Poems , Ecco Press, 1996. 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.