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Czesław Miłosz · 2000 CE · Poem · Polish · Contemporary

Poems written in Kraków in the last years of the poet's life, after decades of exile in Berkeley, turning on memory, the nearness of death and the question of whether a life can be justified. The collection continues the late, plain-spoken manner of Facing the River.

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