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Ocalenie

poetry by Miłosz

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  • Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
    In Czesław Miłosz: Diplomatic and teaching career and political asylum

    Miłosz’s collection Ocalenie (1945; “Rescue”) contains his prewar poems and those written during the occupation. In the same year, he joined the Polish diplomatic service and was sent, after briefly working during 1946 in the Polish embassy in New York City, to Washington, D.C., as cultural attaché,…

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