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Ecstatic Pessimist - Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope

English · Hardback

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Ecstatic Pessimist addresses several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czes¿aw Mi¿osz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Mi¿osz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.

About the author

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is a leading political analyst and poet. His most recent books are The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America, The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11 and the Deep Politics of War, and Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. He has been awarded the Lannan Poetry Award, and former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass wrote that Scott's Coming to Jakarta "is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time." His website can be found at www.peterdalescott.net

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Ecstatic Pessimist address several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Milosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.

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