New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Czesław Miłosz
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: Exile or expatriates, Guilt, God, Catholics or Catholic Church, Poland or Polish people
It is fair, if not quite generous, to ask whether New and Collected Poems, appearing just thirteen years after Czesław Miłosz’s monumental Collected Poems (1988), amounts to anything more than a well-deserved ninetieth birthday present to one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. The answer is that it does. The simple reissue of the earlier volume from a writer who has been “witness to poetry” and to history would be reason enough to celebrate, but fully one-third of the new volume comprises poems that Miłosz has written since 1987—an amazing feat for a...
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