Second Space New Poems

Name: Second Space New Poems
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ISBN: 9780060755249

ISBN-10: 0060755245

ISBN-13: 9780060755249

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Authors: Czeslaw Milosz, Czeslaw Milosz

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Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energetically as Milosz, for whom this territory holds both openings and closings, affirmations as well as losses. "Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, / I felt a door opening in me and I entered / the clarity of early morning," he writes in "Late Ripeness." Elsewhere he laments the loss of his voracious vision -- "My wondrously quick eyes, you saw many things, / Lands and cities, islands and oceans" -- only to discover a new light that defies the limits of physical sight:…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/23/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.28" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Czeslaw Milosz is the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent publications are Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (FSG, 1997) and Road-side Dog (FSG, 1998). He lives in Berkeley, California.