The act of writing a poem is an act of faith.
– Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner
I had the honor of hearing Czeslaw Milosz read his poetry while he was still teaching in Berkeley many years ago. I didn’t know that much about him at the time, but I knew he was an important poet of our time, as he had already won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Milosz’s family fled from the political upheaval plaguing their homeland of Lithuania when he was young. As an adult, he fled the Soviet takeover of Poland with the installation of the Communist regime after World War II and settled in the United States.
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