Bilingual edition in Polish and English. An anthology of poems by Noble Prize Laureate Czeslaw Milosz inspired by places the Poet held dear, and edited by the ultimate authority on his work, professor Aleksander Fiut. This unique collection, comprising Milosz's travel notes and excerpts of memoirs, creates a singularly intimate record of his journeys, additionally illustrated with carefully selected photographs. The Polish texts are juxtaposed with their English language versions, some written by the Poet himself, and others being the work of accomplished translators of his poetry into English. Antologia wierszy Czesława Miłosza inspirowanych miejscami bliskimi poecie opracowana przez wybitnego znawcę twórczości Noblisty, prof. Aleksandra Fiuta. Dzięki utworom, będącym swoistymi zapiskami z podróży i urywkami wspomnień oraz odpowiednio dobranym zdjęciom, współczesnym i archiwalnym, możemy wraz z poetą podróżować od jego rodzinnej Litwy, przez Paryż, aż do Kalifornii, by ostatecznie powrócić na ziemię przodków i do królewskiego Krakowa. Obok polskich tekstów zamieszczono również ich angielskie przekłady, wszystkie zaczerpnięte ze zbiorów aprobowanych lub samodzielnie przekładanych przez Miłosza. Uzupełnieniem antologii jest indeks wybranych nazw geograficznych, ułatwiający wędrówkę śladami poety.
Author
Czesław Miłosz was a Nobel Prize winning poet and author of Polish-Lithuanian heritage. He memorialised his Lithuanian childhood in a 1955 novel, The Issa Valley , and in the 1959 memoir Native Realm . After graduating from Sigismund Augustus Gymnasium in Vilnius, he studied law at Stefan Batory University and in 1931 he travelled to Paris, where he was influenced by his distant cousin Oscar Milosz, a French poet of Lithuanian descent and a Swedenborgian. His first volume of poetry was published in 1934. After receiving his law degree that year, he again spent a year in Paris on a fellowship. Upon returning, he worked as a commentator at Radio Wilno, but was dismissed, an action described as stemming from either his leftist views or for views overly sympathetic to Lithuania. Miłosz wrote all his poetry, fiction, and essays in Polish and translated the Old Testament Psalms into Polish. Awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature for being an author "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts."
