THE COLLECTED POEMS, 1931-1987 <i> by Czeslaw Milosz (Ecco Press: $30; 521 pp.)</i>
Milosz is inspired to acts of creation that both embody his times and transcend them, reaching for themes of the ephemeral nature of human experience, eros and decay, and the joy of poetry.
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