Czeslaw Milosz CD

1974. Introduced by Michael Benedikt.

Listeners to this recording will discover a rich and broad selection from 30 years of the poet's work. This reading took place six years before the poet was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and some fourteen years before the appearance of his widely celebrated Collected Poems (Ecco), but a number of the best poems from that book can be found here, including "Song on the End of the World," "Outskirts," "Bobo's Metamorphosis," and "Ars Poetica?" Some poems are also read in the original Polish.

Length: 71 min.

Track List

1. Introduction by Michael Benedikt
2. Introduction to "A Task"
3. A Task
4. Introduction to "Visitor"
5. Visitor
6. Magpiety
7. from Sentences
8. Introduction to "To Raja Rao"
9. To Raja Rao
10. Dithyramb
11. Dithyramb (Polish)
12. Outskirts (from Voices of Poor People)
13. Introduction to "A Song on the End of the World"
14. A Song on the End of the World
15. A Song on the End of the World (Polish)
16. Throughout Our Lands (section 3)
17. Bobo’s Metamorphosis (section 7)
18. Bobo’s Metamorphosis (section 8)
19. Oeconomia Divina
20. On Angels
21. Whiteness
22. And the City Stood In Its Brightness
23. Should, Should Not
24. Your Voice
25. Introduction to "Ars Poetica?"
26. Ars Poetica?
27. Introduction to "Throughout Our Lands"
28. Throughout Our Lands (section 6)
29. Introduction to "I Sleep A Lot"
30. I Sleep A Lot
31. With Trumpets and Zithers (section 2)
32. With Trumpets and Zithers (section 6)
33. With Trumpets and Zithers (section 7)
34. Counsels
35. June 17 (from Album of Dreams)
36. Mittelbergheim