Czeslaw Milosz

The first book about the Nobel Laureate's transformative but conflicted time in the Golden State. "There is much to learn from this book about Miłosz and California, yes, but also about poetry and the world."— Ilya Kaminsky Czesław Miłosz, one of the greatest poets and thinkers of the past hundred years, is not generally considered a Californian. But the Nobel laureate spent four decades in Berkeley—more time than any other single place he lived—and he wrote many of his most enduring works there