Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz is a master poet whose verse has often relfected the ancient themes of the nature of imagination, human experience, good and evil, and the wonders of life. New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001, the collection of a lifetime of work, also includes a book of new poems, This, published in this volume for the first time in English.This collection, the majority of which is translated by former Poet Laureate and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Robert Hass, is an essential book for Milosz's many fans and for anyone interested in contemporary poetry.