My professor recommended I read this collection after I expressed an interest in Milosz’s work and a specific admiration of his style. Reading “Miracle Fair” was like an exploration of the self. I felt myself get lost in tiny cracks and crevices within and after reemerging there was a certain feelin...
I’m no stranger to Milosz – my Polish classmates are very loud and proud about his writing, and even though I am Ukrainian I am quite familiar with many Slavic writers. I’ve read some of his poems here and there before, a few in their original Polish to practice and see how much of them I can unders...
Although I have made no systematic study of the matter, I must ask myself once again why it is that poetry written by novelists invariably triggers my gag reflex, whereas novels written by poets are well worth reading? With no particular effort the names Dickey, Kinnell, Carlos Williams, Cummings, B...
This man is absolutely an old-world intellectual of the highest order. He claims to be mysterious at times, but never enough to defend himself when it comes to that, and his experiences and insights have all the clarity of being fully lived.As a man he was likely more passive than active in person, ...
The majority of this book was intellectually thrilling, with a balance and subtlety which is rare, for example, on the internet today. On the other hand, I've read a few autobiographical works by Milosz, and it seems as if the subtlety is disguising pro-communist leanings and communist intellectual ...
I'm not an avid reader of essays - well, actually I have a tendency to keep them out from my bookshelves -, but 'The Captive Mind' is a different matter. As some earlier Goodreads reviewer stated: 'This book has some power'.Well, a Hell of a lot of power, indeed!'The Captive Mind' is an extraordinar...
Read this years ago, soon after Milosz was given the Nobel. I remember walking along the corridor at University and passing by the door of his office at the Faculty.
This is a collection of essays and writings by Czeslaw Milosz with a colorful cover and assembled with a clear commercial purpose by Penguin.Well that's better than nothing, I guess. Perhaps I should have picked up "The Captive Mind" by the same author rather than this one, but while facing the deci...
This anthology was a serious underachiever – I found little excitement in it. Of course there were some good poems, but many of them so well known that they provided little surprise (ever hear of Walt Whitman?). Part of the problem is Milosz’s apparent love of the Chinese. I almost felt he would hav...
ooey gooey rich and chewy inside.golden cakey tender flaky outside.wrap the inside in the outside -is it good? darn-tootin!
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