Provinces (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Czesław Miłosz
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Culture, Language or languages, Memory, Creation myth, Spiritual life or spirituality, Youth, Human behavior, Holocaust, Jewish, Time, Blacksmithing or blacksmiths
Czesław Miłosz’s most recent poetry volume, Provinces, is a work of remarkable energy and vision. At an age (eighty) when other poets have left their major work behind them, Miłosz continues to produce an impressive body of new poetry. The forty-two new poems in this collection continue to explore lifelong themes: the nature of the real, the contrast of youth and age, the dualism of spirit and matter, the struggle to express the incomprehensibleness of human experience.
In his 1980 Nobel Prize lecture, Czesław Miłosz spoke of the two attributes of the poet:...
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