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A Book Of Luminous Things

An International Anthology of Poetry

By Czeslaw Milosz

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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.
ISBN: 9780156005746
Imprint: Ecco
On Sale: Apr 1, 1998
List price: $24.99
No of pages: 352
Trim Size: 6.000 in (w) x 9.000 in (h) x 1.000 in (d)
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Czeslaw Milosz

Biography

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911. He worked with the Polish resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and was later stationed in Paris and Washington, DC, as a Polish cultural attaché. He defected to France in 1951, and in 1960 he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in 2004.

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.

ISBN: 9780156005746
Imprint: Ecco
On Sale: Apr 1, 1998
List price: $24.99
No of pages: 352
Trim Size: 6.000 in (w) x 9.000 in (h) x 1.000 in (d)
BISAC 1: POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
BISAC 2: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
BISAC 3: POETRY / American / General
BISAC 4:
BISAC 5:
BISAC 6:

Czeslaw Milosz

Biography

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911. He worked with the Polish resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and was later stationed in Paris and Washington, DC, as a Polish cultural attaché. He defected to France in 1951, and in 1960 he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in 2004.