''Wiersze ostatnie'' (''Last poems'') 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 posthumously in 2006, two years after the poet's death. Polish literary scholar, , noted that the volume represents belongs in a collection of "late verse of the great masters" and "brings together texts that highlight the author’s spiritual, artistic and biographical experience". Małgorzata Gajak-Toczek noted that the collection marks the culmination of many themes and motives that Miłosz has tackled throughout his life. Another Polish scholar, , noted that the poem ''O zbawieniu'' (''On salvation'') contained with in "has a form of poetic minitreaty" and "can be regarded as the masterpiece of a lyric of vanitas".

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2006 poetry books Polish poetry collections Poetry by Czesław Miłosz {{poem-stub