TY - JOUR TI - Miłosz and Twentieth-century American Avant-gardes AU - Marcinkiewicz, Paweł TI - Miłosz and Twentieth-century American Avant-gardes AB - Miłosz was an avant-garde poet who consequently realized his program of rejuvenating mid-twentieth-century Polish poetry: he wanted to cure the maladies of Romantic and nationalistic discourses in order to prevent poetry from addressing important contemporary issues. Although he fi nally became very critical of avantgardes, his initial, restoring impulse came from the Poundian need to “make it new.” Miłosz’s great poetry of the 1970s developed Pound’s formal inventions, particularly the “ideogrammatic method,” thus generating meanings in the poem by setting its fragments against one another. The Polish poet often criticized the achievements of the New York School poets, yet he admired their artistic freedom. He realized, however, that he himself could not contradict the “poetics of rescue” he had been following for years. The world presented in Miłosz’s late poems is not obvious. Its most astonishing feature is the perspective from which the narrator addresses the reader: the timeless space, where the dead meet the living, has nothing to do with a picture of the world based on mimesis. Miłosz’s “second space” has a lot in common with the “real reality” designed by surrealists, which John Ashbery evokes in his recent poems. Both poets reach a similar mystical point where the word touches upon the mystery. VL - Numery anglojęzyczne IS - Issue 25/2011– Between Miłosz and Milosz PY - 2013 SN - 1425-6851 C1 - 1689-1864 SP - 109 EP - 131 DO - 10.4467/16891864ePC.13.019.1208 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przekladaniec/artykul/milosz-and-twentieth-century-american-avant-gardes KW - Miłosz KW - avant-garde KW - Pound KW - ideogrammatic method KW - synecdochic space KW - Ashbery KW - scenic mode KW - unheimlich KW - “really real”