A Book of Luminous Things

An International Anthology of Poetry

Paperback, 344 pages

English language

Published April 1, 1998 by Mariner Books.

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978-0-15-600574-6
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A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz

Czesław Miłosz's A Book of Luminous Things—his personal selection of poems from the past and present—is a testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, offered up so that we may see the myriad ways that experience can be shared in words and images. Miłosz provides a preface to each of these poems, divided into thematic (and often beguiling) sections, such as “Travel,” “History,” and “The Secret of a Thing,” that make the reading as instructional as it is inspirational and remind us how powerfully poetry can touch our minds and hearts.

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