Słowa kluczowe: Czesław Miłosz, Polish-Slovenian translation, selection of poems, Miłosz, poetics of grammar, language asymmetries, translation of Różewicz, Herbert, Szymborska into English., Joseph Brodsky, America, Russia, comparative analysis, Polish school of poetry, Postwar Polish Poetry, poetry translation, American poetry, negro spirituals, translation, ethics of deception, social realism, postcolonial, Thomas Merton, 1960s, Second Vatican Council, Miłosz-Merton correspondence, exile, spiritual homelessness, writing in a foreign language, Miłosz’s English, poetry, confessional, decorum, referentiality, counterculture, engaged literature, Marxism, epiphany, Allen Ginsberg, beat poetry, confessional poetry, avant-garde, Pound, ideogrammatic method, synecdochic space, Ashbery, scenic mode, unheimlich, “really real”, ambivalence, modernity, abstraction, reality, the lyrical “I” and the “I” of dithyramb, fi nding a home in homelessness, anthropology, Nature, human/animal relations, theory of evolution, spatial 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, the image of the United States in Polish postwar press. Miłosz vis-à-vis America, Miłosz as a foreign correspondent