Na brzegu rzeki is a poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz, a Polish and American poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. It was first published in 1994. An English translation by Robert Hass, Facing the River, was published in 1995 by Ecco Press.[1][2] The main themes of the collection are old age and reminiscences of the author's pre-war youth in rural Lithuania.[3][4] The river of the title is the Nevėžis in the Issa Valley near Šeteniai where Miłosz grew up.[4] His 1955 novel The Issa Valley (later adapted into film) was named for the same place.

Partial contents

  • 'At A Certain Age'
  • 'Biography of an Artist'
  • 'Realism'
  • 'One More Contradiction'
  • 'A Human Fly'
  • 'A Polka-Dot Dress'
  • 'Plato's Dialogues'

References

  1. ↑ Cullum, Linda; Cullum, Linda E. (2004). Contemporary American Ethnic Poets: Lives, Works, Sources. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313324840.
  2. ↑ "Table of Contents: Facing the river". Grinnell College Library. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  3. ↑ Corbett, Bob (January 2013). "Facing the River". Webster University. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  4. 1 2 Phillips, Robert (1997). "Poems, Mostly Personal, Some Historical, Many Unnecessary". The Hudson Review. 49 (4): 667–668. doi:10.2307/3851907. JSTOR 3851907.
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