Provinces: Poems 1987-1991

Milosz, Czeslaw; Translated by the author and Robert Hass

ISBN 10: 0880013176 / ISBN 13: 9780880013178

Published by The Ecco Press, New York, 1991

About this Item

First printing of the stated first edition. Publisher's original binding and dust jacket. Signed by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass directly on the title page. Faint shelf wear and a small light stain to bottom back cover, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Seller Inventory # 021178

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Provinces: Poems 1987-1991
• Publisher: The Ecco Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880013176
• ISBN 13: 9780880013178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • A Collection of Poetry
  • Signed First Editions
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Poems explore the themes of youth and mortality, the redemptive power of language, and the borders that divide the past and the present

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 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.