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Czeslaw Milosz was a Polish-American Nobel Prize winning writer. He was for a rare voice of conscience, human insight, and gentle mysticism, in the midst of the Cold War era that defined the latter half of the 20th century.

Milosz was born in a small town in Lithuania during the final years of czarist Russia. At the end of World War I, while he was still a boy, his family moved to Vilna. There, he received a rigorous Roman Catholic education, but one that didn't allow for much intellectual freedom or exploration.

After graduating from the University of Vilna in 1934 with a degree in law, Czeslaw Milosz traveled to Paris, where he connected with his uncle, a diplomat who put Milosz in touch with the Parisian arts and poetry community.

Czeslaw Milosz settled in Warsaw just before the German invasion at the beginning of World War II. He became a leading figure in the Warsaw literary scene, and championed art that was both personal and political, rather than merely an expression of aesthetic craft. As the war and occupation continued, Milosz became a writer for the Polish resistance movement.

At the end of the war, when Poland fell under Communist control, Milosz briefly became a diplomat in the service of the new government. However, in the early 1950s, he sought asylum in France, along with his wife and children.

In 1960, Milosz moved to the United States, becoming a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

Very late in life, Czeslaw Milosz returned to Poland as a cultural hero, and settled in Krakow. It is there that he died in 2004.

Poems by Czeslaw Milosz

	A Song on the End of the World
	Forget
	Late Ripeness
	Love
	On Angels
	On Prayer
	This Only

Recommended Books

	Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, Edited by Carolyn Forche Amazon.com
	Bells in Winter, by Czeslaw Milosz / Translated by Lillian Vallee Amazon.com
	A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, Edited by Czeslaw Milosz Amazon.com
	The Collected Poems, by Czeslaw Milosz Amazon.com
	The Land of Ulro, by Czeslaw Milosz Amazon.com
	New and Collected Poems 1931 - 2001, by Czeslaw Milosz Amazon.com
	Second Space: New Poems, by Czeslaw Milosz / Translated by Robert Hass Amazon.com
	To Begin Where I Am: The Selected Prose of Czeslaw Milosz, by Czeslaw Milosz Amazon.com
	A Treatise on Poetry, by Czeslaw Milosz Amazon.com

Related Links:

	Czeslaw Milosz http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/milosz.htm A good biography of Milosz.
	Czeslaw Milosz \| poetry archive \| plagiarist.com http://www.plagiarist.com/poetry/?aid=98 A few poems online.
	Czeslaw Milosz Home Page http://library.thinkquest.org/11959/milosz/00milo.htm%3ftqskip=1 Biography, commentary, some links.
	NPR: Requiem for a Poet: Czeslaw Milosz http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3852112 NPR recording with poet/translator Robert Hass in honor of the life and poetry of Milosz.

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