Milosz: A Biography

'Enough of this lethargy and fighting' -- 'To be able to earn a living through writing' -- Les grands seigneurs -- 'To you, sweetheart, I cannot say hello' -- Eternal Moment -- A Place on Earth -- 8. The Magic Mountain, 1961-1980 -- Grizzly Peak -- Settling Accounts on Two Fronts -- Wilderness -- Letters to Oneself -- An American in Paris -- Second Space -- Prisoners of Ulro -- 'Perhaps only my reverence will save me' -- 'One of the greatest poets of our time, if not the greatest' -- Job -- 9. The Nobel and the Poet's Later Years, 1980-2004 -- Remembering the Wounds -- 'This crown keeps slipping over my ears' -- Heloise -- 'I will haunt you with my strange love' -- The Dragon -- Provinces -- 'One bright point' -- Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- Photographs 1 -- Photographs 2