{"id":59225,"date":"2017-11-12T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=59225"},"modified":"2023-04-05T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T02:12:00","slug":"czeslaw-milosz-poems-abyss_2017-11-23","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/11\/23\/czeslaw-milosz-poems-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems from the Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":" Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz, New York City, 19<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">\t<div class=\"paywall\" id=\"paywall-a\">\n\t\t<div class=\"fadeout\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"paywall-content text-center pb-xs-14\">\n\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sub_PrintDigital_11062022-72ppi.jpg?w=200\"\n\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sub_PrintDigital_11062022-72ppi.jpg?w=200 200w, https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sub_PrintDigital_11062022-72ppi.jpg?w=400 400w\"\n\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 200px, 400px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"New York Review in various formats\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"paywall-img mb-xs-3\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"text-xs-20 text-lg-30 mb-xs-1 color-ny-red font-giza\">Continue reading <br\/>for just $1.00 per issue!<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"text-xs-16 mb-xs-2\">Choose a Digital subscription or our best deal \u2013 All Access \u2013 that includes print and digital issues, full archive access, and the NYR App!<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.nybooks.com\/ecom\/nyb\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=NYB&publ=NY&key_code=EPMXM01&type=S\" class=\"button font-giza bg-ny-red color-white hover-text-white hover-expand sign-in-subscribe text-xs-16 mb-xs-3 paywall-offer\"><span>View Offers<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t<hr class=\"mt-xs-0 mb-xs-3\"\/>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"text-xs-16 mb-xs-2\">Or\u00a0register\u00a0for a free account to read just this article. <a href=\"\/account\/register\/?level_id=0\" id=\"register\">Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"text-label color-gray mb-0\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"\/account\/signin\/\" class=\"paywall-signin color-gray\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"paywall\" id=\"paywall-b\">\n\t\t<div class=\"fadeout\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"paywall-content text-center pb-xs-14\">\n\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/PrintandDigital-2x_FreeNotebk_02112021-B.jpg?w=200\"\n\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/PrintandDigital-2x_FreeNotebk_02112021-B.jpg?w=200 200w, https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/PrintandDigital-2x_FreeNotebk_02112021-B.jpg?w=400 400w\"\n\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 200px, 400px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"paywall-img mb-xs-3\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"text-xs-20 text-lg-30 mb-xs-1 color-ny-red font-giza\">Continue reading for just $1 an issue and get a FREE notebook! 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He lived through both world wars and the Russian Revolution, experienced fascism, communism, and democracy, lived in Eastern and Western Europe and, later, the United States, and he returned again and again to these events in his writing. \u201cTo me Mi\u0142osz is one of those authors whose personal life dictates his work\u2026. Except for his poems, all of his writing is tied to his&#8230;personal history or to the history of his times,\u201d Witold Gombrowicz, the other great Polish writer in exile, said of him. I agree, but would not exclude Mi\u0142osz\u2019s poems and don\u2019t believe he would either, since he regarded his highest achievement as a poet to be his ability to fuse history and his personal experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16713,"template":"","categories":[18760,18761,18757,18759],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7434],"class_list":["post-59225","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography-memoir","category-in-translation","category-literature","category-poetry","article-type-book-review","article-form-review","_issue-2017-11-23","author-roles-by","author-cap-charles-simic"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/11\/23\/czeslaw-milosz-poems-abyss\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Poems from the Abyss","url":"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/11\/23\/czeslaw-milosz-poems-abyss\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/11\/23\/czeslaw-milosz-poems-abyss\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1988\/06\/czeslaw-milosz_1988-06-02.gif?w=100","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1988\/06\/czeslaw-milosz_1988-06-02.gif"},"articleSection":"Biography &amp; Memoir","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charles Simic"}],"creator":["Charles Simic"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The New York Review of Books","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2017-11-12T16:00:59Z","datePublished":"2017-11-12T16:00:59Z","dateModified":"2023-04-06T02:12:00Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Poems from the Abyss\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.nybooks.com\\\/articles\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/23\\\/czeslaw-milosz-poems-abyss\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.nybooks.com\\\/articles\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/23\\\/czeslaw-milosz-poems-abyss\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nybooks.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/1988\\\/06\\\/czeslaw-milosz_1988-06-02.gif?w=100\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nybooks.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/1988\\\/06\\\/czeslaw-milosz_1988-06-02.gif\"},\"articleSection\":\"Biography &amp; Memoir\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Charles Simic\"}],\"creator\":[\"Charles Simic\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"The New York Review of Books\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2017-11-12T16:00:59Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-11-12T16:00:59Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-06T02:12:00Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nybooks.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/59225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/59225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443097,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/59225\/revisions\/1443097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59225"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}