Tuesday, October 07, 2008

News at Eleven: [Czeslaw] Milosz returned to America only once.

In the summer of 2002, he flew to San Francisco, where Carol was being treated for bone marrow cancer. "The real catastrophe was her sudden death," explains Aleksander Fiut, interlocutor for "Conversations With Czeslaw Milosz." "He was extremely depressed after her death. Before, he was able to laugh. After, sometimes he smiled."

from Los Angeles Times: Poet Czeslaw Milosz's last days

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