Czeslaw Milosz with Helen Vendler, 26 March 1998

This is a brief intro to this event. The full event can be found at http://podcast.lannan.org/2010/04/26/czeslaw-milosz-reading-26-march-1998-video/ and http://podcast.lannan.org/2010/04/26/czeslaw-milosz-with-helen-vendler-conver...

Czeslaw Milosz, born in Lithuania in 1911, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Mr. Milosz worked for the Resistance in Warsaw during World War II, editing anti-Nazi books and pamphlets. He has published 21 books of poetry since his first, A Poem on Frozen Time, appeared in 1933. English translations of his poetry include The Separate Notebooks, Unattainable Earth, Collected Poems 1931-1987, and Facing the River. He has also written two novels and sixteen nonfiction books, including The Captive Mind and Native Realm. Mr. Milosz read on March 26, 1998. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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