Poet in the New World. Poems 1946-1953
Most American readers who encounter this new collection of translations from the Polish will rightly assume that the "New World" of the title refers to the United States, a valid assumption considering that they were largely written during the period that Miłosz, having secured Polish Diplomatic Service posts in New York, Washington D.C., and later Paris, found himself in a Western culture far different from "the most unhappy land" ("In Warsaw") he left behind in the grim, rubble-strewn aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising….
