Arts & Letters Daily search results for “milosz” (9)
2021-10-26 | Milosz in Berkeley. The Polish-Lithuanian poet's seriousness was at odds with the divine madness of the times more »
2017-05-29 | In 1940, Czeslaw Milosz had to choose between Nazi and Soviet occupation. Nazism threatened the body, while Communism threatened the soul. For Milosz, the latter was the greater sacrifice more »
2021-11-09 | “Obviously, all biographies are false," said Czeslaw Milosz. What would the exiled poet make of a new account of his life in California? more »
2017-04-24 | Czeslaw Milosz, who witnessed Stalinist repression firsthand, is remembered as a political writer. Yet he always chafed against the label more »
2015-12-05 | When Baryshnikov met Brodsky. “He was sitting, smoking, very red, very handsome," says Baryshnikov. Soon he met Milosz, Spender, Sontag. “That was my university" more »
2022-05-04 | It's been said that every intellectual forced to emigrate is mutilated. So it was with Czeslaw Milosz in California more »
2017-04-05 | Rarely has so much catastrophe been crammed into one biography. Czeslaw Milosz, who died at 93, came to see life as an honorable defeat more »
2017-07-26 | Oskar Milosz was a respected writer who, after a near-death experience, was transformed from decadent flâneur to full-blown mystic and mentor to his distant cousin, Czeslaw more »
2011-01-01 | '"Whoever says he''s 100% right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal." That sentiment spoke to Czeslaw Milosz, but it barely resonates in our time' more »