Milosz, Czeslaw 1989
In Rome on the Campo dei Fiori
baskets of olives and lemons,
cobbles spattered with wine
and the wreckage of flowers.
Vendors cover the trestles
with rose-pink fish;
armfuls of dark grapes
heaped on peach-down.
– Czeslaw Milosz, “Campo dei Fiori”
Listen to Czeslaw Milosz’s 1989 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago:
Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Tom Raworth, Diane di Prima, Kimiko Hahn, Eugene Gloria, Patricia Smith, Luis Rodriguez, Robert Bly, Brian Turner, Bruce Weigl, Tyehimba Jess, A. Van Jordan, Arielle Greenberg, Billy Corgan, Franz Wright, Czeslaw Milosz, Louise Glück, and Alicia Ostriker.
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On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.
– Czeslaw Milosz, “A Song on the End of the World”
Read this interview with Czeslaw Milosz from the Paris Review:
Paris Review – The Art of Poetry No. 70, Czeslaw Milosz
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