An Invisible RopeCzesaw Miosz (19112004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching. An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesaw Miosz presents a collection of remembrances from his colleagues, his students, and his fellow writers and poets in America and Poland. Mioszs oeuvre is complex, rooted in twentieth century eastern European history. A poet, translator, and prose writer, Miosz was a