Volume 42, Number 5 · March 23, 1995
The Art of Witness
By Michael Ignatieff
A Year of the Hunter
by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Madeline G. Levine
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 294 pp., $27.50
Facing the River: New Poems
by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by the author and Robert Hass
Ecco, 66 pp., $22.00
I spent an autumn day with Czeslaw Milosz in 1991. He was teaching in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I was there with a camera crew to interview him, and I realize now that I probably asked him the wrong questions: about politics, when I should have asked him about his love poems; about the end of communism, when I should have asked him about language; about the Baltics, when I should have asked him how he continued to write with such passion.
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