Unattainable earth
By: Czeslaw Milosz ; translated by the author and Robert Hass.
Contributors: Hass, Robert.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; pol
Number of pages: 141
Description: In his first collection of new poems since receiving the Nobel Prize in 1980, Milosz has changed the very idea of what a book of poetry can be. He combines verse, prose poems, prose jottings, pensees, quotations, translations, and even fragments from personal letters into the shape of a writer's notebook. Under the surface of these multiple forms, a deeper unity appears. Whether Milosz meditates on sexuality, language, the problems of belief, urban street life, or the mysterious annihilating power of time, his central theme is the desire to confront the ecstatic experience of life on earth. The volume also includes poems of Walt Whitman and D.H. Lawrence which Milosz translated into Polish. ISBN 0-88001-098-3 : $17.95.
Notes: Includes index.