{"product_id":"beginning-with-my-streets-essays-and-recollections-9780374532727","title":"Beginning with My Streets: Essays and Recollections","description":"\u003cp\u003ePolish Wilno--now Vilnius, in Lithuania--was the city of Czeslaw Milosz's youth and adolescence. In this collection of essays and reminiscences, written over a span of three decades, the Nobel Prize-winning poet traces an informal autobiography againstthe street map of an extraordinary city--a crossroads of languages, cultures, and beliefs--that lies at the very heart of his internal geography. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeginning with My Streets\u003c\/i\u003e, available for the first time in paperback, gathers portraits of the writers Aleksander Wat, Dwight MacDonald, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well as the great Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg; an exchange of letters from the 1950s with the novelist and diarist Witold Gombrowicz; and a selection of speeches delivered between 1967 and 1987, including Milosz's Nobel Lecture. These diffuse reckonings, distinguished throughout by the flavor of personality and the aura of place, have a cumulative power--they are quintessential Milosz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374532727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.52w x 0.85d","brand":"Czeslaw Milosz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42389443575989,"sku":"9780374532727","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_08ecf5e4-1237-4974-b960-1f36f1b4f5ed.jpg?v=1663680843","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/beginning-with-my-streets-essays-and-recollections-9780374532727","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}