A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
"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...
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Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz selects and introduces 300 of his favorite poems in this “magnificent collection” that ranges “widely across time and continents, from eighth century China to contemporary americanca” (San Francisco Chronicle).Politics and ProseThe Nobel winner has given us a rare and precious resource, a personal anthology of poems from all over the world...a compilation of the luminous things that poetry can be.
\ Minneapolis Star TribuneOne of the best general poetry anthologies to come along in years.\ \ \ \ \ Politics and ProseThe Nobel winner has given us a rare and precious resource, a personal anthology of poems from all over the world...a compilation of the luminous things that poetry can be.\ \
