Selected and Last Poems
1931-2004
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 15, 2011
“One of the century’s most important poets.” —San Francisco Chronicle “One of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest.” —Joseph Brodsky “Nobody tells the story of this age better than Czeslaw Milosz.” —New Republic Commemorating the centenary year of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, Selected and Last Poems 1934 - 2004 is a sterling collection of some of the finest works of one the most revered poets of our time—including more than forty later poems new to this edition and never before published in English.
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- Who it’s for
- A generous way into Milosz, gathering poems from across a long literary life.
- Genres
- European Poetry, Eastern European Collections
- Published
- HarperCollins, November 15, 2011
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“One of the century’s most important poets.” —San Francisco Chronicle “One of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest.” —Joseph Brodsky “Nobody tells the story of this age better than Czeslaw Milosz.” —New Republic Commemorating the centenary year of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, Selected and Last Poems 1934 - 2004 is a sterling collection of some of the finest works of one the most revered poets of our time—including more than forty later poems new to this edition and never before published in English.
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Selected and Last Poems is a perfect introduction for poetry readers who might still be unfamiliar with this literary giant’s monumental body of work.
Poetry Across Decades
A generous way into Milosz, gathering poems from across a long literary life.
Come here for
- A wide-ranging introduction to a revered poet’s work
- More than forty later poems appearing in English for the first time
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- A collection spanning poems from 1934 to 2004
- Selected poems alongside later work
Where it sits
| European Poetry | 73% |
|---|---|
| Eastern European Collections | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Anthologies
- Literary Fiction
- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Women's Fiction
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- American Literary Collections
- Eastern European Collections
- Women Authors Collections
- Poetry Anthologies
- Authors
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- November 15, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Short Story Anthologies