Czeslaw Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he has published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (most recently New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

From the Review

September 23, 2004: The Emperor Constantine (poem)

December 20, 2001: An Honest Description of Myself with a Glass of Whiskey at An Airport, Let Us Say, in Minneapolis (poem)

December 20, 2001: Forget (poem)

November 2, 2000: From Milosz's ABC's

November 19, 1998: Discreet Charm of Nihilism

May 15, 1997: Subjects to Let

April 24, 1997: Standing with Soyinka (letter)

February 6, 1997: Themes

November 14, 1996: On Szymborska

April 4, 1996: Another Version of 'Laments' (letter)

February 15, 1996: Bringing a Great Poet Back to Life

Laments by Jan Kochanowski, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak, by Seamus Heaney

June 22, 1995: Enigma (letter)

May 11, 1995: Adders and Other Reptiles

Reptile Journalism: The Official Polish-Language Press under the Nazis, 1939–1945 by Lucjan Dobroszycki, translated by Barbara Harshav

'Jews in the Polish Underground Press, 1939–1945' in Poland by Lucjan Dobroszycki

Biedni Polacy Patrza Na Getto by Jan Blonski

March 23, 1995: To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only (poem)

August 11, 1994: The State of Nature: Notes from a Diary

November 4, 1993: Swing Shift in the Baltics

The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven

February 2, 1989: An Open Letter to Fidel Castro (letter)

July 21, 1988: A Poet's Reply (letter)

March 27, 1986: Father Ch., Many Years Later (poem)

February 27, 1986: An Interview with Czeslaw Milosz

October 24, 1985: Three Poems by Adam Zagajewski (poem)

September 26, 1985: Preparation (poem)

June 27, 1985: An Open Letter to General Jaruzelski (letter)

October 27, 1983: An Appeal for Solidarity with Polish Writers (letter)

August 18, 1983: Report from a Besieged City (poem)

April 28, 1983: Three Poems by Czeslaw Milosz (poem)

March 17, 1983: Ruins and Poetry

May 13, 1982: Help Save "Que Me" (letter)

January 21, 1982: The Polish Crisis: Three Statements (letter)

March 5, 1981: The Nobel Lecture, 1980

October 23, 1980: Campo di Fiori (poem)

August 14, 1980: A Struggle Against Suffocation

A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky

January 20, 1977: The Polish Resistance

November 7, 1968: Poet Power (letter)

August 22, 1968: Poet Power (letter)

From New York Review Books

My Century The great Polish poet Aleksander Wat's memoirs provide a powerful and moving account of life in Eastern Europe in the terrible twentieth century.

Books by Czeslaw Milosz

New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001 (2001)