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The Burdens of Language

From the February 2002 Print Edition

To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays By Czeslaw Milosz Edited by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 272 pages, $30 Who is Czeslaw Milosz? Poet extra­ ordinary, of course, regarded by some as the greatest living poet; Polish-Lithuanian by birth and education, . . . . Continue Reading »