Słowa kluczowe: the Bible, poetry, translation of the Bible, poetry translation, psalms, Czesław Miłosz, Polish-Slovenian translation, selection of poems, The Issa Valley, Norwegian language, Swedish language, dialects in translation, nominalization, stylistics in translation, translation, rhythm in a poem, the motif of the blacksmith in literature., Milosz, poetics of grammar, language asymmetries, translation of Różewicz, Herbert, Szymborska into English, Josif Brodski, America, Russia, comparative analysis, Polish school of poetry, Postwar Polish Poetry, Czeslaw Milosz, negro spirituals, Thomas Merton, the Cold War, the Second Vatican Council, 20th-century epistolography, Miłosz-Merton correspondence, exile, spiritual homelessness, writing in a foreign language, Miłosz’s English, Miłosz, confessional, decorum, referentiality, usefulness, counterculture, engaged literature, Marxism, epiphany, Allen Ginsberg, counculture, beat poetry, confessional poetry, avant-garde, Pound, ideogram, fragmentarization, synecdochic space, Ashbery, scenic mode, unheimlich, “really real”, ambivalence, modernity, abstraction, reality, the “I” of lyrical poetry and the “I” of dytyramb, homelessness as belonging, Zbigniew Herbert, Robert Lowell, nihilism, American poetry, Walt Whitman, Miłosz and anthropology, human/animal relations, theory of evolution, spacial imagination, religious imagination, Miłosz in America, European Anti-Americanism in the 1940s, post-war literary life in Poland, American culture, economy, politics under president Truman, an image of the United States in Polish postwar press, Miłosz confronted with America, Miłosz as a foreign correspondent