Category
Print-MultipleMedium
DrypointType of Artwork
Multiple (250 copies (plus 25 copies hors commerce))Signature
Hand signedSize of the artwork
15 x 10.25 in(38.1 x 26.04 cm)
Publisher
San Francisco: Arion PressArtwork description
Jim DINE
(1935)
Świat / The World(1989)
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Czeslaw Milosz’ Swiat / The World comprises twenty poems printed here in the original Polish and in an English translation by the poet himself. It was written in 1943 at a time when Milosz was working at an underground press as part of the Polish resistance to the Nazis. He purposefully adopted a naïve voice for the poems in order to “describe the world as it should be seen by children as opposed to the world of horror I knew.” He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980 for voicing, in the words of the Nobel Committee, “man’s exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts.”
This edition by the Arion Press is limited to 250 copies (plus twenty-five copies hors commerce) and is signed by Milosz. It includes a signed dry-point portrait of the poet by artist Jim Dine.