I n his lecture for the 1980 Nobel Prize in literature, the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) referred to his work as “a quest for reality.” Miłosz’s life was one long defense of ...

The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski’s great poem “To Go to Lvov” has a special importance for many young poets in different languages. That poem weaves the historical and the personal, ...

ANOTHER BEAUTY By Adam Zagajewski Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 221 pages, $23 Poland is perhaps the most devastated country of modern Europe, victimized a… ...

Since winning the Nobel Prize in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz has worked his way into American literary consciousness more than any other Polish writer. Although his reputation rests primarily on his ...

Second Space New Poems Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by the author and Robert Hass Ecco: 102 pp., $23.95 A poet who gave over but never gave up - Los Angeles Times ...

Polish poet and playw right Tadeusz Różewicz, who was a member of the resistance during Germany’s occupation of Poland in World War II, has died, according to reports in the Polish press. He ...

The poet’s story — told by scholar Cynthia L. Haven in a thought-provoking book, “Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life” — demonstrates how our state allows people to move both further from ...

The poet’s story — told by scholar Cynthia L. Haven in a thought-provoking book, “Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life” — demonstrates how our state allows people to move both further from ...