A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

Publisher Marketing: For A Book of Luminous Things Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz has selected 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages, poems memorable for how they render the realities of the world palpable and immediate. They are organized under eleven headings - including "Epiphany, " "Nature, " "The Secret of a Thing, " "Travel, " "Places, " and "The Moment." In addition to his introduction, Milosz contributes brief, penetrating commentary on each poet. Among the poets included are Elizabeth Bishop William Blake, Joseph Brodsky, Constantinos Cavafy, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Linda Gregg, Seamus Heaney, Zbigniew Herbert, Jane Hirshfield, Robinson Jeffers, D. H. Lawrence, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, Li Po, Antonio Machado, Thomas Merton, W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Po Chu-I, Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodore Roethke, Charles Simic, Gary Snyder, Wallace Stevens, May Swenson, Anna Swir, Wislawa Szymborska, Tu Fu, Wang Wei, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams. Review Citations: Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 533 (EAN 9780156005746, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 569 (EAN 9780156005746, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 740 (EAN 9780156005746, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 882 (EAN 9780156005746, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 318 (EAN 9780156005746, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 416 (EAN 9780156005746, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 522 (EAN 9780156005746, Paperback) Booklist 09/01/1996 pg. 57 (EAN 9780151001699, Hardcover) Library Journal 08/01/1996 pg. 77 (EAN 9780151001699, Hardcover) Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/1997 pg. 76 (EAN 9780151001699, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1997 pg. 88 (EAN 9780151001699, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 533 (EAN 9780151001699, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1998 pg. 48 (EAN 9780151001699, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 318 (EAN 9780151001699, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Milosz, Czeslaw Czeslaw Milosz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.