New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001

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Nobel Prize laureate Milosz is a master poet whose verse has often reflected the ancient themes of the nature of imagination, human experience, good and evil, and the wonders of life. This collection is an essential book for Milosz's many fans and for anyone interested contemporary poetry.

Introduction by Czeslaw Milosz

xxiii

A POEM ON FROZEN TIME

(2)

(Poemat o czasie zastyglym, 1933)

Artificer

(2)

THREE WINTERS

(18)

(Trzy-zimy, 1936)

The Song

(6)

The Gates of the Arsenal l

Hymn

(3)

Dawns

(2)

Slow River

(3)

Statue of a Couple

(2)

RESCUE

(56)

(Ocalenie, 1945)

Ballad of Levallois

(2)

Encounter

(1)

A Book in the Ruins

(3)

Day of Generation

(2)

Campo dei Fiori

(3)

The World

(20)

The Road

The Gate

The Porch

The Dining Room

The Stairs

Pictures

Father in the Library

Father's Incantations

From the Window

Father Explains

A Parable of the Poppy

By the Peonies

Faith

Hope

Love

The Excursion to the Forest

The Bird Kingdom

Fear

Recovery

The Sun

Voices of Poor People

(11)

A Song on the End of the World

Song of a Citizen

The Poor Poet

CafT

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto

Outskirts

Songs of Adrian Zieli±ski

(5)

Farewell

(2)

Flight

(1)

In Warsaw

(2)

Dedication

(2)

DAYLIGHT

(28)

(Swiatlo dzienne, 1953)

Song on Porcelain

(2)

Child of Europe

(5)

Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait

(1)

A Nation

(2)

Birth

(2)

A Family

(2)

Ocean

(1)

The Journey

(1)

The Spirit of the Laws

(2)

A Legend

(3)

Earth

102

(1)

You Who Wronged

103

(1)

Mittelbergheim

104

(3)

A TREATISE ON POETRY

107

(46)

(Traktat poetycki, 1957)

Preface

109

(39)

I. Beautiful Times

111

(5)

II. The Capital

116

(11)

III. The Spirit of History

127

(13)

IV. Natura

140

(31)

Ode

148

(5)

KING POPIEL AND OTHER POEMS

153

(36)

(Krol Popiel i inne wiersze, 1962)

King Popiel

155

(1)

Magpiety

156

(1)

Lessons

157

(1)

No More

158

(1)

Ode to a Bird

159

(2)

Happiness

161

(1)

What Once Was Great

162

(1)

Should, Should Not

163

(1)

What Does It Mean

164

(1)

Heraclitus

165

(1)

Greek Portrait

166

(1)

The Master

167

(2)

A Frivolous Conversation

169

(1)

In Milan

170

(1)

From the Chronicles of the Town of Pornic

171

(4)

Bluebeard's Castle

The Owners

Vandeans

Our Lady of Recovery

Album of Dreams

175

(6)

Far West

181

(1)

Throughout Our Lands

182

(7)

BOBO'S METAMORPHOSIS

189

(22)

(Lucio zaczarowany, 1965)

It Was Winter

191

(2)

Bobo's Metamorphosis

193

(5)

Rivers Grow Small

198

(1)

They Will Place There Telescreens

199

(1)

On the Other Side

200

(1)

And the City Stood in Its Brightness

201

(1)

Those Corridors

202

(1)

Three Talks on Civilization

203

(3)

Sentences

206

(1)

I Sleep a Lot

207

(2)

Dithyramb

209

(2)

CITY WITHOUT A NAME

211

(36)

(Miasto bez imienia, 1969)

The Year

213

(1)

City Without a Name

214

(8)

When the Moon

222

(1)

Veni Creator

223

(1)

Window

224

(1)

With Trumpets and Zithers

225

(7)

How It Was

232

(2)

On the Road

234

(1)

Whiteness

235

(1)

Thesis and Counter-Thesis

236

(1)

Counsels

237

(2)

Incantation

239

(1)

Ars Poetica?

240

(2)

Higher Arguments in Favor of Discipline Derived from the Speech Before the Council of the Universal State in 2068

242

(2)

Island

244

(1)

My Faithful Mother Tongue

245

(2)

UNCOLLECTED POEMS 1954-1969

247

(10)

Esse

249

(1)

A Mistake

250

(1)

How Ugly

251

(1)

To Robinson Jeffers

252

(2)

To Raja Rao

254

(3)

FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN

257

(76)

(Gdzie wschodzi slo±ce i kedy zapad a, 1974)

A Task

259

(1)

An Hour

260

(1)

A Story

261

(1)

Readings

262

(1)

Oeconomia Divina

263

(1)

Tidings

264

(1)

L'AccelTration de l'Histoire

265

(1)

Elegy for N. N.

266

(2)

An Appeal

268

(3)

Calling to Order

271

(2)

Not This Way

273

(1)

So Little

274

(1)

On Angels

275

(1)

Seasons

276

(1)

Gift

277

(1)

From the Rising of the Sun

278

(55)

I. The Unveiling

II. Diary of a Naturalist

III. Lauda

IV. Over Cities

V. A Short Recess

VI. The Accuser

VII. Bells in Winter

HYMN OF THE PEARL

333

(66)

(Hymn o perke, 1981)

A Magic Mountain

335

(2)

The View

337

(1)

Caesarea

338

(1)

Study of Loneliness

339

(2)

A Felicitous Life 34o

The Fall

341

(1)

Temptation

342

(1)

Secretaries

343

(1)

Proof

344

(1)

Amazement

345

(1)

Idea

346

(1)

Filina

347

(2)

Reading the Japanese Poet Issa (1762-1826)

349

(2)

Notes

351

(4)

Before Majesty

355

(1)

A Poetic State

356

(1)

Distance

357

(1)

When After a Long Life

358

(1)

On Pilgrimage

359

(1)

Early Morning

360

(1)

A Portal

361

(1)

The Separate Notebooks

362

(31)

A Mirrored Gallery

Pages Concerning the Years of Independence

The Wormwood Star

Bypassing Rue Descartes

393

(2)

Account

395

(1)

Rivers

396

(3)

UNATTAINABLE EARTH

399

(54)

(Nieobjeta ziemia, 1986)

The Garden of Earthly Delights

401

(6)

1. Summer

2. A Ball

3. Paradise

4. Earth

5. Earth Again

After Paradise

407

(1)

The Hooks of a Corset

408

(6)

Annalena

414

(1)

Yellow Bicycle

415

(1)

Into the Tree

416

(2)

One More Day

418

(2)

Winter

420

(2)

A Boy

422

(1)

In Salem

423

(1)

1913,

424

(1)

At Dawn

425

(1)

At Noon

426

(1)

Return to Krak=w in 1880

427

(1)

The City

428

(1)

Preparation

429

(1)

"With not-quite truth ..."

430

(1)

Consciousness

431

(4)

On Prayer

435

(1)

Father Ch., Many Years Later

436

(5)

Initiation

441

(1)

Elegy for Y. Z.

442

(2)

Anka

444

(1)

Theodicy

445

(1)

Table I

446

(1)

Table II

447

(1)

My-ness

448

(1)

Thankfulness

449

(1)

Poet at Seventy

450

(2)

"To find my home . . ."

452

(1)

NEW POEMS 1985-1987

453

(48)

A Portrait with a Cat

455

(1)

Mary Magdalen and I

456

(1)

A Skull

457

(1)

In a Jar

458

(1)

All Hallows' Eve

459

(1)

This Only

460

(1)

A Confession

461

(1)

For Jan Lebenstein

462

(1)

With Her

463

(1)

Old Women

464

(1)

How It Should Be in Heaven

465

(1)

Caffe Greco

466

(2)

And Yet the Books

468

(1)

On Parting with My Wife, Janina

469

(2)

Powers

471

(2)

La Belle +poque

473

(14)

The Trans-Siberian Railway

Beyond the Urals

First Performance

The Northern Route

Revolutionaries

A Parisian Scene

The Titanic

Fear-Dream (1918)

487

(1)

In a Buggy at Dusk

488

(2)

1945,

490

(1)

Six Lectures in Verse

491

(10)

PROVINCES

501

(76)

(Dalsze okolice, 1991)

Blacksmith Shop

503

(1)

Adam and Eve

504

(1)

Evening

505

(1)

Creating the World

506

(2)

Linnaeus

508

(2)

In Music

510

(1)

Incarnated

511

(1)

Mister Hanusevich

512

(2)

Philology

514

(1)

And Yet

515

(1)

At Yale

516

(7)

Beinecke Library

523

(1)

The Thistle, the Nettle

524

(1)

Reconciliation

525

(1)

Abode

526

(1)

A New Province

527

(4)

Reading the Notebook of Anna Kamienska

531

(1)

Youth

532

(2)

In Common

534

(1)

A Photograph

535

(4)

Lastingness

539

(1)

Either-Or

540

(2)

Two Poems

542

(6)

Conversation with Jeanne

A Poem for the End of the Century

Spider

548

(2)

Far Away

550

(6)

Inheritor

556

(1)

Gathering Apricots

557

(1)

Meditation

558

(1)

On a Beach

559

(3)

Return

562

(2)

***

564

(1)

Good Night

565

(1)

December 1

566

(1)

Dante

567

(2)

Meaning

569

(1)

Kazia

570

(7)

A Philosopher's Home S

S72

FACING THE RIVER

577

(66)

(Na brzegu rzeki, 1995)

At a Certain Age

579

(1)

A Lecture

580

(3)

Why

583

(2)

Capri

585

(4)

Report

589

(2)

Lithuania, After Fifty-two Years

591

(5)

A Goddess

The Manor

A Certain Neighborhood

A Naiad

Who?

City of My Youth

596

(1)

A Meadow

597

(1)

Translating Anna Swir on an Island of the Caribbean

598

(2)

To My Daimonion

600

(3)

The Wall of a Museum

603

(1)

Biography of an Artist

604

(1)

The Garden of Earthly Delights: Hell

605

(1)

Realism

606

(1)

One More Contradiction

607

(1)

Woe!

608

(1)

Pierson College

609

(1)

Sarajevo

610

(1)

To Allen Ginsberg

611

(3)

A Human Fly

614

(1)

House in Krasnogruda

615

(1)

A Polka-dot Dress

616

(2)

Plato's Dialogues

618

(1)

Undressing Justine

619

(6)

Retired

625

(2)

Wanda

627

(4)

To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only

631

(2)

You Whose Name

633

(1)

This World

634

(1)

Happenings Elsewhere

635

(3)

A Hall 637

638

(1)

After Enduring

Body

639

(1)

In Szetejnie

640

(3)

ROAD-SIDE DOG

643

(16)

(Piesek przydrozny, 1998)

Road-side Dog

645

(1)

Pelicans

646

(1)

A Ball

647

(1)

Watering Can

648

(1)

From My Dentist's Window

649

(1)

Autumn

650

(1)

Helene

651

(1)

Helene's Religion

652

(1)

Yokimura

653

(2)

America

655

(1)

Christopher Robin

656

(1)

Rivers

657

(2)

THIS

659

(To, 2000)

This

663

(2)

To a Hazel Tree

665

(2)

I Do Not Understand

667

(1)

My Grandfather Sigismund Kunat

668

(3)

Lake

671

(1)

After Traveling

672

(1)

The Head

673

(1)

Forget

674

(1)

In a City

675

(4)

An Honest Description of Myself with a Glass of Whiskey at an Airport, Let Us Say, in Minneapolis

679

(1)

For My Eighty-eighth Birthday

680

(1)

A Run

681

(1)

By a Stream

682

(1)

683

(1)

0! (Gustav Klimt)

684

(1)

0! (Salvator Rosa)

685

(1)

0! (Edward Hopper)

686

(1)

Wherever

687

(1)

Voyeur

688

(1)

So-called Life

689

(1)

Prescription

690

(1)

In Black Despair

691

(1)

Example

692

(1)

Awakened

693

(1)

Submerged

694

(1)

Vipera Berus

695

(1)

Texas

696

(1)

Craftsman

697

(1)

You, Vanquished

698

(1)

Specimens

699

(1)

The Year 1900

700

(1)

Obviously

701

(1)

My Secrets

702

(1)

703

(4)

III

Zone of Silence

707

(1)

Selecting Iwaszkiewicz's Poems for an Evening of His Poetry at the National Theater in Warsaw

708

(1)

Ode for the Eightieth Birthday of Pope John Paul II

709

(2)

What I Learned from Jeanne Hersch

711

(2)

Opposed to Each Other

713

(1)

Zdziechowski

714

(4)

Against the Poetry of Philip Larkin

718

(1)

On the Death of a Poet

719

(2)

On the Inequality of Men 72o

Aleksander Wat's Tie

721

(1)

To Robert Lowell

722

(1)

Pastels by Degas

723

(1)

On Poetry, Upon the Occasion of Many Telephone Calls After Zbigniew Herbert's Death

724

(2)

Unde Malum

726

(1)

Rozewicz

727

(4)

Gardener

731

(2)

One and Many

733

(1)

An Alcoholic Enters the Gates of Heaven

734

(2)

The Rite

736

(2)

Persons

738

(3)

In a Parish

741

(1)

Prayer

742

(2)

After

744

(1)

Rays of Dazzling Light

745

(2)

Late Ripeness

747

(2)

Notes

749

(22)

Index of Poems and Translators

771

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