More daring and more rewarding than a straightforward biography of the self-exiled Polish poet, A California Lifechannels the tensions between Miłosz and his adoptive home and lets that friction energize the project. In other words, this is less about a poet and his life and more about how a brilliant artist and thinker steeped in Old World culture learned to exist in the amnesiac fog of California.
See also: Episode 218: The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz.
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