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 wars, the harsh reality of World War II, and the role of the poet in the postwar world. Here Milosz addresses the failure of early-20th-century Polish poetry. With vast historical ...
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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 wars, the harsh reality of World War II, and the role of the poet in the postwar world. Here Milosz addresses the failure of early-20th-century Polish poetry. With vast historical sweep and in language that enables readers to see "as if in a flash of summer lighting", Milosz offers a fascinating account of the mysterious art of poetry.
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Good. A good condition reader copy only. Cover is worn but book is straight and solid. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 141 pg. Audience: General/trade. Poems that cover the years 1981-1984. Translated by Milosz and American poet Robert Haas. 1986 Paperback Edition.
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Very good+ in Very good+ jacket. Cloth backed boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has hint of toning and wear to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with foxing to top edge of block. DJ has hint of edgewear, rubbing, now in archival mylar wrap.
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New York. 1986. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0880010983. Translated from the Polish by The Author & Robert Hass. 141 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Poland Poetry Eastern Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In his first collection of new poems since receiving the Nobel prize for Literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz, with a playfulness and passionate restlessness of mind that are entirely characteristic, has changed the very idea of what a book of poetry can be. In Unattainable Earth, verse, prose poems, prose jottings, pensees, quotations, translations and even fragments from personal letters have been gathered into the shape of a writer's notebook, where they form a sustained meditation on sexuality, language, the problems of belief, the life of the streets of cities and the mysterious annihilating power of time. And beneath all these motifs there is, finally, a single subject-the powerful desire to confront the ecstatic experience of life on earth. This is evident not only in Mr. Milosz's own poems, but in the companion poems of Walt Whitman and D. H. Lawrence he was translating into Polish, which appear here returned to their original English renewed by their rather surprising interplay with a contemporary text. The structure of UNATTAINABLE EARTH makes it possible for us to experience, with unusual intimacy, the play of this central obsession as the poet's spirit and intellect move among and strain against his themes. In this movement, the book perhaps resembles the poetic diaries of the Japanese, with their free sense of border crossings between poetry and prose-although Mr. Milosz's sense of historical irony and passion to understand are entirely European. ‘The core of the major themes of Milosz's poetry, ' Joseph Brodsky has said, ‘is the unbearable realization that a human being is unable to grasp his experience. ' In Unattainable Earth, there is a deepening of this theme, and as it is pursued the poet comes to certain understandings: if human experience is ungraspable, then the moments of tenderness between people, disappearing as they occur, are all the more precious and mysterious. This book, for all its range and sobriety and formal inventiveness and lyricism, seems, finally, to be a book of love poems, an elegy for and meditation on the earthly paradise. inventory #98.
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Fine in Near Very Fine jacket. Book Large, thinner book, black cloth spine, blue boards, embossed initials at top front, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 141 pages. DJ glossy in shades of blue, a white circle at top front with illustration of mounted globes and geometric shapes. DJ has very tiny tear next to top back tip. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.
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