''Ocalenie'' ("Rescue") is a poetry collection by

Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, ...

. It was first published in 1945. Many of the poems collected were written in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

during the

Nazi occupation German-occupied Europe refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly occupied and civil-occupied (including puppet governments) by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 ...

Partial contents

* "World: Naïve Poems"—a sequence of pastoral poems ** "By the Peonies" * "Song on the End of the World" * "Campo dei Fiori"—"a civic-minded poem about people’s indifference to the deaths of others" * "The Voices of Poor People"—cycle ** "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" * "Dedication"

References

1945 poetry books Polish poetry collections Poetry by Czesław Miłosz {{1940s-poem-stub