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Czesław Miłosz: A California Life — A Conversation with Cynthia L. Haven
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More about Czesław Miłosz: A California Life
https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/czeslaw-milosz-a-california-life/
https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/tag/czeslaw-milosz/
How the book originated (0:45) — The vatic tradition in Polish poetry (4:30) — Warsaw 1945 and “Dedication” (6:45) — Introducing Polish literature to California students (11:00) — Immersion in American literature and culture after 1945 (15:00) — Under surveillance by the U.S. government; defecting to the U.S.; Stalinism as “swallowing frogs” (17:30) — Being and becoming; poetry and philosophy; from Thomas Aquinas to James Fenimore Cooper (20:30) — The superhuman California landscape (24:30) — Transition from Poland to Berkeley and “Magic Mountain” (25:30) — The loss of “second space” and spiritual imagination (30:30) — A playful thinker, and “To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat’s Honor and Not Only” (34:00)
“Dedication” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49458/dedication
“A Magic Mountain” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49456/a-magic-mountain
“To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat’s Honor and Not Only” https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/03/23/to-mrs-professor-in-defense-of-my-cats-honor-and-n/
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