Selected by Nobel poet 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.

Format: Paperback
ISBN-13/EAN: 9780156005746
ISBN-10: 0156005743
Pages: 352
Price: $16.99
Publication Date: 04/01/1998
Carton Quantity: 32
Age(s): 14,15,16
Grade(s): 9-12
Reading Level:
- Lexile Reading Level NP

Author

Czeslaw Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was born in Lithuania. During the Second World War he was active in the Resistance in Poland and later served in the Polish diplomatic corps. A poet, translator, essayist and novelist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

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