Na brzegu rzeki

Facing the River

Author

Czesław Miłosz

Language

Polish

Year

1994

Country

Poland

Genre

Poetry Collection

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Na brzegu rzeki is a poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz, a Polish and American poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. It was first published in 1994. An English translation by Robert Hass, Facing the River, was published in 1995 by Ecco Press. The main themes of the collection are old age and reminiscences of the author's pre-war youth in rural Lithuania. The river of the title is the Nevėžis in the Issa Valley near Šeteniai where Miłosz grew up. His 1955 novel The Issa Valley was named for the same place.