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Czeslaw Milosz (19112004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching. "An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz" presents a collection of remembrances from his colleagues, his students, and his fellow writers and poets in America and Poland.
Milosz s oeuvre is complex, rooted in twentieth-century eastern European history. A poet, translator, and prose writer, Milosz was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, from...

Czeslaw Milosz (1911 2004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching. "An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz" presents a collection of remembrances from his colleagues, his students, and his fellow writers and poets in America and Poland.
Milosz s oeuvre is complex, rooted in twentieth-century eastern European history. A poet, translator, and prose writer, Milosz was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1961 to 1998. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature....

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century.

After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared emigre into, as he himself termed it, "a Russian poet, an English essayist, and, of course, an American citizen."

In interviews from 1972 to 1995, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations covers the course of his exile. The last interview dates from just ten weeks before his death. In talks, he calibrates the process of his remarkable...