Visions from San Francisco Bay

by Czeslaw Milosz; Translator Richard Lourie

Book Overview

Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called "remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have understood and judged our state . . . Their subject is the frailty of modern civilization."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374517630
• ISBN13: 9780374517632
• Release Date: July 1983
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Works even as a translation.

I'm a native Pole, so it's easy for me to say "Milosz is great". I can read his works in the original language he has written them in, however, as person who uses the English language on the daily basis, I can also say "He is the poet of the world". In this book, Milosz shows his talent at its best. Descriptive, enigmatic and feeling. Thank you for that, Czeslaw,this books expressed your feelings so eloquently that it helped me express mine.