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"More clever than you, I learned my century, pretending I knew a method for forgetting pain." There are few superlatives left for Milosz's work, but this enormous volume, with its portentous valedictory feel, will have reviewers firing up their thesauri nationwide. Born in Lithuania 90 years ago, Milosz published his first volume in Poland at age 22 and, after leftist activity in the '30s (forced underground under Hitler), defected in 1951 while working for the Polish consulate in Paris. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1960 and settling in as a professor of Slavic languages and literature at Berkeley (whence his books continued to issue), Milosz won the Nobel Prize in 1980. More books of verse attempting to come to grips with the 20th century followed, and Milosz enjoys an enormous, and deserved, reputation here, well-served by Milosz and Robert Hass's many co-translations of the poems, which make up the bulk of the book. (Other translators include Robert Pinsky and Peter Dale Scott.) Worth the price of admission alone is a full collection's worth of new work, taken from the Polish volume To ("This" in English) published last year, and superior to 1998's very uneven Road-Side Dog. The odd rhyming hexameter of "A Run" is typical here, taking us on dreams of flying, and back, in the last stanza, to the present: "I'm unkindly greeted by this awakened state./ During the day, on my cane, asthmatic, I creep./ But the night sees me off at the traveler's gate,/ And there, as at the outset, the world is new and sweet." Through the many horrors chronicled in this book, that renewal is a perpetual promise.

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As complete a representation of the Nobel prize winner's work as you are likely to find.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful, Important Work by a true Master..., April 20 2002
By Arthur F. McVarish (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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Students of literature and philosophy familiar with the poetry and political-mythological writing of Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw
Milosz do not need to be convinced that NEW and COLLECTED POEMS: 1931-2001 is a treasure. The author essays power and profundity in his study of totalitarian mentality in THE CAPTIVE MIND.In THE EMPEROR of the EARTH: Modes of Eccentric Vision, he dissected the nihilistic essence of Post-Modernism and those infatuated by it. But it is as POET that Milosz manifests genius...tempered by humility and GRATITUDE ...in bedazzling insights into the human condition.Unlike Solzhenitsyn, with whom he bears comparison as Cross-bearer of TRUTH, Milosz seems...as poets must...more capable of life-affirming epiphanies of love, beauty and friendship with man and nature in the face of chaos, deceit, violence and suffering; that has characterized --and continues to erupture--the 20th century...

I propose here we have another Dante. This marvelous work is his DIVINE TRAGEDY. The SUMMA...poetic, historic, gnostic, archetypal... jouney, quest, trial of a gifted man doomed to understand cosmic forces in apocalyptic battle for the tiny(cosmic???)souls of men is his epic account of what St. Augustine rendered as The City of God vs. The City of Man.

Is beauty here? Are there "time-out's" for play(song;lust; games; most important of all: redemptive hope and wonder-in-gratitude)? Readers of Czeslaw Milosz already know or think they know his poetic "replies".TRUTH is beauty. But not the "cheap" Keat's Urn-stuff...It must affirm GOOD. On pp. 252-253,Milosz WARNS a
child (Berkeley college student in 1963)against BE-coming a liar: "If you have not read the Slavic poets/ so much the better. There's nothing there for a Scotch-Irish wanderer to seek./ They lived in a childhood prolonged from age to age./ For them, the sun and moon was a farmer's ruddy face, the moon peeped through a cloud and the Milky Way gladdened them like a birch-lined road./They longed for the Kingdom that was always near, always right at hand......WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH YOU? You did not know what I know./ No one with impunity gives to himself
the eyes of a god.../Better to carve suns and moons on the joints of crosses...as was done in my district...to implore protection against the mute and treacherous might/ than to proclaim, as you did, an inhuman thing..."

Agree with the voice that prompted St. Augustine 2000 years ago; or recently in the laudatory article printed in April's ATLANTIC MONTHLY: "Take and read"...this beautiful, important work by a true Master.

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5.0 out of 5 stars After 9.11, Jan 22 2002
By Kirie Pedersen "Kirie Pedersen" (Brinnon, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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After September 11th, I, a formerly avid reader, could no longer read anything but news, dreadful news. A lifelong subscriber to the New Yorker, I picked up an issue which magically opened to a poem by Milosz. I think it was the first or second issue that followed the bombings.

The poem provided one of those rare moments where one feels transformed by words, where life is worth living again because someone said something so beautifully that it was again worth it to continue on.

I don't even know if Milosz wrote that poem specifically in response to what happened on September 11th; surely he saw greater horrors in Poland than we can even imagine. Yet ever since, his words have granted me peace, not only from the fear of annihilation through disaster, but from the ultimate annihilation of death.

I also love that he's still writing at ninety. I love how, against all odds, he decided to fall the way of faith.

I read one of his poems each night, like a prayer, like a song.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Modern Sublime, Dec 6 2001
By Fritz Allhoff (A UC Philosophy Dept) - See all my reviews
This collection of poetry is pure transcendence. I was amazed with the quality of these poems--how they were selected and arranged--as well as the translations (Hass). Were these poems actually written in a language other than English? It does not seem so here. I couldn't imagine even the slightest nuance or reverberation of langauge lost in this work.

I highly recommend this volume. It seems more logical than previous Milosz collections, and the poems here make it clear that his Nobel Prize in Literature was well-deserved. Milosz is a prophet and soothsayer of the modern era. And with this collection, despite its price, each poem is economically precise and wise; there is no monetary value that could estimate the value of this superb collection.

The most interesting aspect of this volume is recognizing familiar Milosz poems juxtaposed with his latest work (2000). His latest work has the depth of lived experience and a maturity of patient observation of the human condition. Its strength lies in its approach to elemental themes: growing older, mortality, the trials of love and war, the purity of faith's optimism.

This book is a "must have."

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