The most beautiful and powerful selection of Czesław Miłosz's poems from the entire span of his writing life. This collection brings together the most beautiful and strong poems of Czesław Miłosz, covering his journey as a writer. In verses such as "Coffee," he reflects on the turbulent years, the revolutions, and the two world wars he witnessed, while in "Faithful Mother Tongue," he expresses the devotion he felt towards his native language, Polish. He also remembers his school years in "The World," and in "Patrol in Rue Descartes," he reminisces about the streets of Paris from his student life, showing both tenderness and fierce anger towards those who shaped his experiences. In Miłosz's poetry, he does not write about abstract emotions but about the horrors and beauty he directly observed, opening our eyes to the possibility of joy that poetry offers, to which he dedicated his life.

Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. Born in Lithuania while it was still part of the Russian Empire, he lived much of his life in Poland or in exile in California. He was the author of one of the defining books on totalitarianism, "The Captive Mind," but also wrote with remarkable vividness and moral authority about his childhood, his experiences under Nazism, and the tragedy of Central Europe.

Pages: 368, Dimensions: 13x13cm