Description
Czeslaw Milosz did not believe he would ever return to the river valley in which he grew up. But in the spring of 1989, exactly fifty years after he left, the new government of independent Lithuania welcomed him back to that magical region of his childhood. Many of the poems in "Facing the River" record his experiences there, where the river of the Issa Valley symbolizes the river of time as well as the river of mythology, over which one cannot step twice. This is the river Milosz faces while exploring ancient themes. He reflects upon the nature of imagination, human experience, good and evil - and celebrates the wonders of life on earth.
Info
ISBN: 9780880014540
Published Date: April 1, 1996
Publisher: Ecco
Language: English
Page Count: 66
Size: 7.27" l x 4.72" w x 0.27" h
Category
Poetry
Subject
Continental European