"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. "
