"Czesław Miłosz: A California Life"
"When the name Czesław Miłosz is mentioned, faces tend to fall. 'Poet of Witness' is the stock association. People think of bombed cities and the Holocaust. Yet Miłosz is also a poet of the miraculous, a poet of wonder, a poet of doubt, and perhaps the best poet of old age we've had since Whitman....He spent four decades in California, more than anywhere else in his life. The passionate poet who longed for detachment, a more objective place from which to see himself, found it here."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Karen Anderson on Mihaela Moscaliuc's Cemetery Ink
"'Elegy for my mother's employer' is a case in point: love and precision ('your small frame/and freckled breasts') are shot through with fury ('Six months of this shit's enough'). This boss's flamboyant 'why not?,' is paired with a litany of her abuses....The end chimes with itself—Mother's 'fine,' rings with 'harm' and 'hell of time' and 'dying' and 'native ground' to remake her mother's apparent powerlessness as a calm that reaches beyond the arc of her employer's cruelty." |
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