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Ecstatic Pessimist addresses several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Milosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.