Book of Luminous Things

Selected by Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz an inspiring collection of 300 poems from writers around the world. Czeslaw Milosz'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. Milosz 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.