Czeslaw Milosz
TOWN WITHOUT A NAME
On the preface sheet autograph of the poet!
Paris 1969 Literary Institute, Library of Culture vol.178; so-called "second circulation"; pp.70; format 13.5x21.5cm
City without a name - a volume of poems by Czeslaw Milosz published in 1969 by the Literary Institute in Paris as the 178th volume of the Library of "Culture".
The volume contains poems written in 1961-1969 mainly in Berkeley, most of them previously published in the pages of the Parisian "Kultura" and the London "Oficyna Poetów".
The collection includes fifteen poems and three poems:
City Without a Name - the title work, in which the poet recalls from the American perspective the Vilnius of Mickiewicz, Slowacki, Syrokomla and Milosz himself,
On Trumpets and Zither - expresses Dionysian praise of being, ecstatic admiration of the paradisiacal world. In a conversation with Ewa Czarnecka, the poet explained: "These are in any case very Dionysian poems. Each poem is some kind of ecstatic experience.It is a rapture with the beauty of the world",
Zapisane wczesnym rankiem mową niezwiązaną - a series of 9 poems, mainly of a programmatic nature (Ars poetica? , Moja wierna mowo).
New in the collection are poems of a religious nature, such as:Veni Creator, The more, How have you endured.
The volume contains poems written in 1961-1969 mainly in Berkeley, most of them previously published in the pages of the Parisian "Kultura" and the London "Oficyna Poetów".
The collection includes fifteen poems and three poems:
City Without a Name - the title work, in which the poet recalls from the American perspective the Vilnius of Mickiewicz, Slowacki, Syrokomla and Milosz himself,
On Trumpets and Zither - expresses Dionysian praise of being, ecstatic admiration of the paradisiacal world. In a conversation with Ewa Czarnecka, the poet explained: "These are in any case very Dionysian poems. Each poem is some kind of ecstatic experience.It is a rapture with the beauty of the world",
Zapisane wczesnym rankiem mową niezwiązaną - a series of 9 poems, mainly of a programmatic nature (Ars poetica? , Moja wierna mowo).
New in the collection are poems of a religious nature, such as:Veni Creator, The more, How have you endured.
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