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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996)

by Czesław Miłosz (Editor)

Other authors: Judah al-Harizi (Contributor), James Applewhite (Contributor), Aloysius Bertrand (Contributor), Miron Białoszewski (Contributor), Elizabeth Bishop (Contributor) — 102 more, William Blake (Contributor), Joseph Brodsky (Contributor), Raymond Carver (Contributor), Constantine Cavafy (Contributor), Blaise Cendrars (Contributor), Ch'ang Yu (Contributor), Ch'in Kuan (Contributor), Chang Chi (Contributor), Chang Yang-hao (Contributor), Chu Shu Chen (Contributor), Chuang Tzu (Contributor), Robert Creeley (Contributor), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Contributor), Emily Dickinson (Contributor), Wayne Dodd (Contributor), Gunnar Ekelöf (Contributor), Emperor Chien-wen of Liang (Contributor), Edward Field (Contributor), Jean Follain (Contributor), Robert Francis (Contributor), Robert Frost (Contributor), Allen Ginsberg (Contributor), Linda Gregg (Contributor), Eamon Grennan (Contributor), Jorge Guillén (Contributor), John Haines (Contributor), Julia Hartwig (Contributor), Robert Hass (Contributor), Seamus Heaney (Contributor), Zbigniew Herbert (Contributor), Jane Hirshfield (Contributor), Moushegh Ishkhan (Contributor), Issa (Contributor), Rolf Jacobsen (Contributor), Robinson Jeffers (Contributor), Anna Kamieńska (Contributor), Jaan Kaplinski (Contributor), Kikaku (Contributor), Galway Kinnell (Contributor), David Kirby (Contributor), Ted Kooser (Contributor), Steve Kowit (Contributor), Ryszard Krynicki (Contributor), Joanne Kyger (Contributor), Valery Larbaud (Contributor), Philip Larkin (Contributor), DH Lawrence (Contributor), Naomi Lazard (Contributor), Li-Young Lee (Contributor), Denise Levertov (Contributor), Philip Levine (Contributor), Li Ching-chao (Contributor), Li Po (Contributor), Liu Tsung-Yuan (Contributor), Antonio Machado (Contributor), Zbigniew Machej (Contributor), Mai Yao Ch'en (Contributor), Bronislaw Maj (Contributor), Thomas Merton (Contributor), WS Merwin (Contributor), Oscar Milosz (Contributor), Robert Morgan (Contributor), Nachman of Breslov (Contributor), Leonard Nathan (Contributor), Sharon Olds (Contributor), Mary Oliver (Contributor), Ouyang Xiu (Contributor), Po Chu-I (Contributor), Francis Ponge (Contributor), Lawrence Raab (Contributor), Kenneth Rexroth (Contributor), Rainer Maria Rilke (Contributor), Theodore Roethke (Contributor), Tadeusz Rozewicz (Contributor), Rumi (Contributor), Shu Ting (Contributor), Charles Simic (Contributor), Louis Simpson (Contributor), Gary Snyder (Contributor), Muso Soseki (Contributor), Leopold Staff (Contributor), William Stafford (Contributor), Wallace Stevens (Contributor), Su Man Shu (Contributor), Su Tungpo (Contributor), May Swenson (Contributor), Anna Swir (Contributor), Wislawa Szymborska (Contributor), James Tate (Contributor), Tomas Tranströmer (Contributor), Tu Fu (Contributor), David Wagoner (Contributor), Wang Chien (Contributor), Wang Wei (Contributor), Aleksander Wat (Contributor), Sandor Weores (Contributor), Walt Whitman (Contributor), William Carlos Williams (Contributor), Keith Wilson (Contributor), Franz Wright (Contributor), Adam Zagajewski (Contributor), Al Zolynas (Contributor)

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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.… (more)

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808.81Literature › modified standard subdivisions › Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures › Collections of literary texts from more than two literatures › Collections of poetry

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PN6101.B585Language and Literature › Literature (General) › Literature (General) › Collections of general literature › German › Poetry

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