[New-Poetry] Zagajewski on Milosz

[Judy Prince]

The entire piece beautifully written; thank you, James.  I only wish I could
engage with Milosz' poems.  <sigh>
Judy

2008/12/8 <jforjames at aol.com>

> http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/zagajewski_f08.html
>
> I can't write a memoir of Milosz: so much was hidden in his life. Besides,
> he was an ecstatic poet and an ecstatic person. We'll never really know
> people like that. They hide their great moments of elation; they never share
> with others the short joys of their sudden discoveries, and the sadness when
> the vision fades. They thrive in solitude. With their friends they are
> usually correct, measured, just like everybody else. They are like a ship we
> sometimes see in a peaceful port: a huge immobile mass of metal covered by
> spots of rust, a few sailors lazily sunbathing on the deck, a blue shirt
> drying on a rope. One wouldn't guess that this ship was once struggling with
> the hurricane, barely surviving the onslaught of big waves, singing an iron
> song... No, I didn't know him enough. I have to return to his poems, to his
> essays.
>
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