Poet in the New World: Poems, 1946-1953

A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz that includes previously untranslated poems written during his time in Washington, D.C., and his years in Europe before and after.

One of the most revered poets of the twentieth century, Czesław Miłosz famously bore witness to violence in his native Poland in the aftermath of World War II. Miłosz lived in exile in Europe and the United States and, immediately after the war, worked as a diplomatic official in Washington, D.C., leavin...