Bells In Winter

Bells In Winter

Review "The poet's entire effort is directedtoward a confrontation with experience-and not with personal experience alone,but with history in all its paradoxical horrorand wonder .... The translations in Bells in Winterreveal a voice that is unadorned and discursive,yet capable of powerful (and delicate)poetic effects; it is a voice that works throughtraditional forms to transform andrevivify tradition .... Few other living poetshave argued as convincingly for thenobility and value of the poet's calling." -- New York Times Book Review A selection of insightful and moving poems examines self, history, and the human character through the expression and translation of personal as well as historical experience. Reprint. About the Author Czeslaw 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 attach