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...more personal level of inspiration, Heaney cites Polish expatriot poet Czeslaw Milosz, who recently passed away at the age of 93. “He had a great political as well as artistic feel,” he says...
DIED. CZESLAW MILOSZ, 93, Polish poet and essayist whose politically charged writing in the shadow of communism earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980; in Krakow, Poland. Born in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, he spent World War II writing for the anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw. Later, after a stint as a diplomat, he broke from the Polish government and wrote about the plight of intellectuals under communism in his 1953 essay collection, The Captive Mind. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1960, he taught Slavic literature at Berkeley for more than 20 years...
...usually reading three or four books at a time. I’m reading a Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, whose collected poems have just come out. Like everybody else, I’m reading a lot of newspapers and magazines about these events...
...famous "bog poems" by Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning poet and Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet, agonizes over the problems of place and the mixed emotions of homecoming. Often compared by critics to noted expatriates (and fellow Nobel Laureates) Joseph Brodsky and Czeslaw Milosz, Heaney frequently writes about returning as an outsider to his homeland in Ireland. There he finds a rich heritage of language and myth, subjugated by the fear-driven assimilation of British culture forced upon Ireland with the onset of "The Troubles...
...literary world. Aside from a brief spate of spoken-word spots on MTV, pop culture seems to have forsaken poetry altogether. Which makes us wonder, can a nationwide publicity blitz sway today's younger readers? What America really needs now is Courtney Love, wearing a diaphanous nightie, reading Czeslaw Milosz from the roof of the Viper Club. Now that would be something...