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.