Ocalenie

Ocalenie ([ɔt͡saˈlɛɲɛ]; 'Rescue') is a poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz. It was first published in 1945. Many of the poems collected were written in Warsaw during its Nazi occupation.

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"