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Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry /

by Czeslaw Milosz

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Publisher Comments:

Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz selects and introduces 300 of his favorite poems in this “magnificent collection” that ranges “widely across time and continents, from eighth century China to contemporary americanca” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Synopsis:

For A Book of Luminous Things, Czeslaw Milosz has chosen 300 of the finest poems written through the ages and around the world — poems memorable for their language, their imagery, and their ability to move the reader. A testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, this unique international collection is both instructional and inspirational, and reminds us of the importance of poetry to our minds and souls.

Included in this volume are such poets as Elizabeth Bishop, Wislawa Szymborska, Rumi, Tu Fu, Anna Swir, Wang Wei, Jean Follain, Raymond Carver, Aleksander Wat, May Swenson, Walt Whitman, Blaise Cendrars, James Tare, Constantine Cavafy, Sharon Olds, an anonymous Inuit poet, and a group of Yoruba tribesmen, among many others.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780156005746
Subtitle:
An International Anthology of Poetry
Editor:
Milosz, Czeslaw
Editor:
Milosz, Czeslaw
Author:
Milosz, Czeslaw
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
San Diego
Subject:
Anthologies (multiple authors)
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Collections
Subject:
Adult
Subject:
Poetry -- Collections.
Copyright:
1996
Edition Number:
1st Harvest ed.
Series Volume:
102-644
Publication Date:
April 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
344
Dimensions:
904x606x80 91
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