Facing the River (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Czesław Miłosz
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Short fiction, Poetry
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Philosophy or philosophers, Self, Sin or Original sin, Religion, Hell, Life and death, Buddhism
Czesław Miłosz’s poetry over the last decade has undergone a profound change. Moving away from the vast panoramic poems which attempt to reconstruct a world, Miłosz has moved toward a more concise lyric form with sharply defined contradictions and ironies. More important, he has sought to overcome his preoccupation with the tragedies of history and ease his confrontation with American civilization, expressing an acceptance of the limitations of the art and of his own, relatively new, role as a world-famous figure. The balance and equilibrium of Asian poetry have come to dominate...
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