A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

Czesław Miłosz

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - Poetry - 320 pages

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.

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User Review  - stixnstones004 - LibraryThing

I don't write many reviews, but this book needs one. It's odd to have an editor of an anthology put so much personal commentary into it, but I have no problem with that in and of itself. What I have a ...

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User Review  - jhhymas - LibraryThing

This is one of the best anthologies ever assembled! When my brother was dying, he kept only three of his books and gave the rest away. This was one of the three on his bedside table.

Contents

• H Lawrence Maximus: 5
• David Wagoner: 13
• Adam Zagajewski Moths: 19
• Mary Oliver: 20
• Robert Francis Waxwings: 25
• H Lawrence Butterfly: 31
• Galway Kinnell: 35
• Wisława Szymborska Seen from Above: 42
• Am the Poet: 53
• Robinson Jeffers Boats in: 60
• Fish Cove: 80
• Po Ancient Air: 84
• Chang Yanghao Recalling the Past at Tung Pass: 91
• Bronislaw Maj Seen Fleetingly from a Train: 97
• Jaan Kaplinski We started home my son and I: 103
• Wang Chien The South: 109
• Joseph Brodsky In the Lake District: 115
• Elizabeth Bishop Brazil January 1 1502: 121
• Linda Gregg Night Music: 127
• Walt Whitman Cavalry Crossing a ford: 141
• Tomas Tranströmer Tracks: 154
• Jaan Kaplinski My Wife and Children: 167
• Wayne Dodd Of Rain and Air: 173
• Wang Wei Song about Xi Shi: 179
• Walt Whitman From I Sing the Body Electric: 185
• Wang Chien The New Wife: 192
• W S Merwin Utterance: 198
• Anna Swir I Wash the Shirt: 204
• Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider: 210
• Chu Shu Chen Morning: 216
• Linda Gregg Adult: 221
• Steve Kowit What Chord Did She Pluck: 227
• Anna Swir I Talk to My Body: 233
• Tu Fu Dejeuner sur lHerbe: 241
• Wayne Dodd Of His Life: 247
• Lawrence Raab The Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window: 254
• Raymond Carver The Cobweb: 265
• Jelaluddin Rumi Little by little wean yourself: 271
• Po The Birds Have Vanished: 277
• Tu Fu Visitors: 283
• Southern Bushmen The Day We Die: 289
• Leopold Staff Foundations: 295
• Zbigniew Herbert Elegy of Fortinbras: 301
• Index of Authors: 315

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry; A Harvest Book
• Editor: Czesław Miłosz
• Contributor: Czesław Miłosz
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998
• ISBN: 0156005743, 9780156005746
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)