Selected and Last Poems, 1931-2004

Contents Cover Title Page Publisher's Note I. Selected Poems A Note on the Texts and Their Selection The Door Stands Open by Seamus Heaney A Footnote, Many Years Later by Czeslaw Milosz Dawns *** "You strong night..." The Song Slow River Encounter A Book in the Ruins Campo dei Fiori Song of a Citizen A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto The World A Song on the End of the World Café Outskirts Flight from A Treatise on Poetry: III. The Spirit of History In Warsaw Dedication Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait Song on Porcelain Ocean Greek Portrait Earth Mittelbergheim Esse Album of Dreams No More Magpiety Throughout Our Lands Veni Creato Bobo's Metamorphosis I Sleep a Lot Elegy for N. N. A Magic Mountain Temptation Secretaries Amazement Idea Notes The Separate Notebooks: A Mirrored Gallery The Separate Notebooks: The Wormwood Star Bypassing Rue Descartes Rivers After Paradise The Hooks of a Corset Annalena Yellow Bicycle Winter At Dawn The City Linnaeus Mister Hanusevich The Thistle, the Nettle In Common Conversation with Jeanne On a Beach December 1 Meaning Kazia Capri A Certain Neighborhood A Meadow Realism House in Krasnogruda To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only This World In Szetejnie And That City Stood in Brightness To Robinson Jeffers Sentences Window With Trumpets and Zithers Whiteness When the Moon On the Road Incantation Ars Poetica? My Faithful Mother Tongue City Without a Name To Raja Rao So Little Seasons Gift From the Rising of the Sun Watering Can Christopher Robin From My Dentist's Window After My Grandfather Sigismund Kunat What I Learned from Jeanne Hersch Pastels by Degas Unde Malum Rays of Dazzling Light Late Ripeness If There Is No God Classmate High Terraces Notebook Orpheus and Eurydice II. Last Poems Introduction to the Last Poems by Anthony Milosz A Note on Translation Presence One Sentence A Ninety-Year-Old Poet Signing His Books *** "Do not reveal what is forbidden..." *** "Places that were haunted" The Math Teacher In Honor of Reverend Baka In the Fog The Rat-Catcher's Fife *** "I pray to my bedside god" *** "Materialism?..." If In Vilnius Lilacs Bloom Voice Arbor Vitae Antegor A Dream: Plurality The Turtle How Could I Heaven The High-Priest's Son Without My Daemonion To Nature I Am Ashamed In Depression Normalization What Do I The Princess In a Garrison Town *** "I hail from another dimension..." Leonor Fini Lord Syruc Human Histories Heavenly *** "A record of my feeling..." *** "That boundless substance" An Old Man Watches TV Late Old Age *** "Turning our faces to Him" Sanctificetur On Salvation Goodness Notes on the Last Poems Czeslaw Milosz: A Biographical Note Index of Poems and Translators About the Author Selected Works in English by Czeslaw Milosz Copyright About the Publisher