{"product_id":"selected-and-last-poems-1931-2004-9780062095886","title":"Selected and Last Poems: 1931-2004","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of the century's most important poets.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Joseph Brodsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nobody tells the story of this age better than Czeslaw Milosz.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cem\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommemorating the centenary year of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, \u003cem\u003eSelected and Last Poems 1934 - 2004\u003c\/em\u003e is a sterling collection of some of the finest works of one the most revered poets of our time--including more than forty later poems new to this edition and never before published in English. \u003cem\u003eSelected and Last Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is a perfect introduction for poetry readers who might still be unfamiliar with this literary giant's monumental body of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilosz, Czeslaw:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eCzeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911. He worked with the Polish resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and was later stationed in Paris and Washington, D.C., as a Polish cultural attaché. He defected to France in 1951, and in 1960 he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50655304876306,"sku":"9780062095886","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b54460ec-3f4f-4ea5-898d-bf2e5ba048f2.jpg?v=1733378882","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/selected-and-last-poems-1931-2004-9780062095886","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}