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In one of his poems, a parent describes several European capitals, including "Rome, Christendom's capital" and Paris "where a level bluish mist moves in waves." Along with "Father Explains," poems such as "The Dining Room" and "The Stairs" appeared in his collection Rescue. This poet wrote that "There was a time when only wise books were read" in another poem, and his "catastrophist" phase is exemplified by the poem "Artificer." This author's long poem "From the Rising of the Sun" is collected in his Bells in Winter, and the title event of another of this man's poems is only perceived by a "white-haired old man" who "binds his tomatoes. Another work by this author includes a discussion of the Murti-bing pills in the novel Insatiability, though it centers on the conflict faced by four individuals known only as Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. For ten points, name this author of "A Song on the End of the World" and The Captive Mind.
In one of his poems, a parent describes several European capitals, including "Rome, Christendom's capital" and Paris "where a level bluish mist moves in waves.
Czeslaw {Milosz}