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Reading: Czeslaw Milosz

Presenter Information

Czeslaw Milosz

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

23-3-1983 8:00 PM

End Date

23-3-1983 9:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 23, 1983, as part of the 14th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Centennial Year,” Czeslaw Milosz reads excerpts from The Selected Notebooks. Milosz also reads “Calling to Order,” “A Song on the End of the World,” “Campo dei Fiori,” “[If I had to tell what the world is for me],” “[When the moon rises and women in flowery dresses are strolling],” “Esse,” “Bobo’s Metamorphosis,” “Magpiety,” “To Raja Rao,” “[You talked, but after your talking all the rest remains]” “[The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation],” “[And yet you experienced the flames of hell],” “[Pure beauty, benediction: you are all I gathered],” “Rivers,” “Ars Poetica,” “You Who Wronged,” “A Parable of the Poppy Seed,” and “So Little.”

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Mar 23rd, 8:00 PM Mar 23rd, 9:00 PM

Reading: Czeslaw Milosz

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 23, 1983, as part of the 14th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Centennial Year,” Czeslaw Milosz reads excerpts from The Selected Notebooks. Milosz also reads “Calling to Order,” “A Song on the End of the World,” “Campo dei Fiori,” “[If I had to tell what the world is for me],” “[When the moon rises and women in flowery dresses are strolling],” “Esse,” “Bobo’s Metamorphosis,” “Magpiety,” “To Raja Rao,” “[You talked, but after your talking all the rest remains]” “[The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation],” “[And yet you experienced the flames of hell],” “[Pure beauty, benediction: you are all I gathered],” “Rivers,” “Ars Poetica,” “You Who Wronged,” “A Parable of the Poppy Seed,” and “So Little.”

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