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Facing the River

Facing the River( )
Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
ISBN:978-0-88001-454-0
Publication Date:Apr 1996
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Ecco
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.00
Book 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...
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Book Details
Pages:84
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.19 Inches
Book Weight:0.228 Pounds
Author Biography
Milosz, Czeslaw (Author)
Czeslaw Milosz is the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent publications are Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (FSG, 1997) and Road-side Dog (FSG, 1998). He lives in Berkeley, California.

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