| A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry Contributor(s): Milosz, Czeslaw (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0756905559 ISBN-13: 9780756905552 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $26.61 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: April 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 808.81 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.14 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |