Milosz, Czeslaw, winner of the 1980 Noebel Prize for Literature, — The Collected Poems (1931-1987).

NY, Ecco Press, (1988). VG lg sz PB. Born in Lithuania in 1911. He was formed deeply within the troubled world of Poland, lived through the German occupation. and from 1945 to 1950 served in the Polish diplomatic service in Wasington and Paris. He was skeptical at first about the translatability of his verse and the work of translation has been no casual affair. His co-translators were Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky who do not know Polish. Laid in review of book from June 19, 1988, by C. H. Sisson who understands the difficulties of writing in a language other than your native one.