Book excerpt: Presents a collection of remembrances from colleagues, students, and fellow writers and poets in America and Poland of Czeslaw Milosz. Milosz's oeuvre is complex, rooted in twentieth-century eastern European history. A poet, translator, and prose writer, Milosz was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1961 to 1998. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.