Second Space (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Czesław Miłosz
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Translation
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Authors or writers, Exile or expatriates, Poetry or poets, San Francisco, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Poland or Polish people, Old age or elderly people, Aging
The death of Czesław Miłosz in Krakow, Poland, on August 14, 2004, at the age of ninety-three marked the end of one of the most important poetic careers of the twentieth century. Described by his fellow émigré Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Brodsky as “one of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest,” Miłosz also has the distinction of being one of the longest-lived. His first poems were published in 1931; Second Space appeared seventy-three years later.
Miłosz was unique in many ways—in his rural Lithuanian boyhood and the youth he spent in...
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