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24 Oct 201924 Oct 2019Tim Miller

Czeslaw Milosz, “My Faithful Mother Tongue”

Czeslaw Milosz, “My Faithful Mother Tongue” Faithful mother tongue, I have been serving you. Every night, I used to set before you little bowls of colors so you could have your birch, your cricket, your finch as preserved in my memory. This lasted many years. You were my native land; I lacked any other. I […]

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5 Feb 201826 Jul 2018Tim Miller

The Poet Speaks #7: Bronowski, Bloom, Munro, Gilbert, Trevor

On why he turned from more specialized to more popular writing on science and culture: Because of that [the use of scientific knowledge in the making of atomic bombs] I wanted to be sure that what I had to say would not be confined to a small circle of specialists but would touch people where […]

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