A review of Cynthia Haven’s 'Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life,” …

… Poet at the End of the World - The American Conservative. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Is it possible to enjoy a book while simultaneously rolling eyes at the way its narrative is framed? Yes, certainly. In her acknowledgments, Haven thanks Steve Wasserman, the former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review and now the head of Heyday Books, for publishing a series called “California Lives.” As Haven recounts, when she proposed a volume on Milosz for this series, Wasserman was initially nonplussed, but she won him over, for which we can be very thankful.