Volume 21, Number 5 · April 4, 1974
Child of Europe
By D.J. Enright
Selected Poems translated by the author himself; the other hands are Peter Dale Scott, Richard Lourie, Jan Darowski, John Carpenter, Lawrence Davis, and A. M.)
by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by several hands, (the greater number of these poems are, with an introduction by Kenneth Rexroth
Seabury Press: Continuum Books, 128 pp., 5.95
Czeslaw Milosz is a poet who has been run over twice, in fairly rapid succession, by the steamroller of state. Born in Lithuania in 1911, he wrote for Polish underground publications during the Nazi occupation. After a brief postwar career in the new Polish government's diplomatic service, he sought asylum in 1951 in Paris, where he wrote his best-known book, The Captive Mind, a study of the effects of communism on authorship. Ten years later he came to America, and now teaches Slavic literatures at the University of California at Berkeley.
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