@article{3138a99d-b5d5-4359-8f56-f86f9ee54f9f,
author = {Jerzy Jarniewicz},
title = {"A Discarded Tire by the Road": Miłosz Settles up with Ginsberg},
journal = {Przekładaniec},
volume = {Issues in English},
number = {Issue 25/2011– Between Miłosz and Milosz},
year = {2013},
issn = {1425-6851},
pages = {133-145},keywords = {Czesław Miłosz; Allen Ginsberg; counterculture; beat poetry; confessional poetry},
abstract = {This article discusses Czesław Miłosz’s ambiguous relationship with American beat
	and confessional poetry as well as with the counterculture of the 1960s. It focuses
	on one of Miłosz’s late poems dedicated to Allen Ginsberg, published in Facing the
	River in 1994. The poem, though ostensibly about Ginsberg, is in fact one of the most
	confessional poems the Polish poet has ever written, presenting his own life as a failure,
	“a discarded tire by the road,” and setting up Ginsberg as an exemplary wiser poet,
	“who persisting in folly attained wisdom.” On the one hand, it seems diffi cult not to
	see Miłosz and Ginsberg as two very different personalities. On the other hand, Miłosz
	saw Ginsberg as the true heir to Whitman, whom he himself had always admired.
	The discussion of the poem reveals that Miłosz uses Ginsberg as his own antithesis,
	a Yeatsian mask or a Jungian shadow, representing everything that the Polish poet, with
	his admitted contempt for any trace of weakness and mental instability, has never been
	or valued.},
doi = {10.4467/16891864ePC.13.020.1209},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/a-discarded-tire-by-the-road-milosz-settles-up-with-ginsberg}
}