An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz (19112004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching.An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Miloszpresents a collection of remembrances from his colleagues, his students, and his fellow writers and poets in America and Poland. Miloszrs"s oeuvre is complex, rooted in twentieth-century eastern European history. A poet, translator, and prose writer, Milosz was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1961 to 1998. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The earliest in this collection of thirty-two memoirs begins in the 1930s, and the latest takes readers to within a few days of Miloszrs"s death. This vital collection reveals the fascinating life story of the man Joseph Brodsky called "one of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest."