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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry | Czeslaw Milosz
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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.
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Linika
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How beautiful is this! The joy in recreating the simple little things.

soror_muivah Hi baby 🥰 4y
Linika Hey cutie😘 @soror_muivah (edited) 4y
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Tanisha_A
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How soothing! 🌸

South Wind by Tu Fu
Translated from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth

TheSpineView 💚💚💚 5y
Cathythoughts Very soothing ✨ 5y
batsy Just what I needed after a crazy day of work 🌷 5y
Tanisha_A @batsy I feel you! 😵 And considering what's up with the general state of the world, i don't know where else to seek solace. 5y
Tanisha_A @TheSpineView @Cathythoughts Happy to have shared! 🙂 5y
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Tanisha_A
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Awareness. #poetry

Mystic by D. H. Lawrence

Graywacke Wow. Terrific... 5y
Tanisha_A @Graywacke Isn't it! And funny thing i ate an apple today, kept thinking about this. 😁 5y
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Tanisha_A
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I'd love to be at a beach right now spotting starfishes, and thinking of this imagery. #poetry

Daybreak by Galway Kinnell

Suet624 Vermont‘s Poet Laureate 5y
batsy 💫💛 5y
Lcsmcat Lovely 5y
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readordierachel Beautiful ❤ 5y
Tanisha_A @Suet624 I didn't know him before i came across this poem, and now i want to read more of him. 🙂 5y
batsy Kinnell's poem Saint Francis and the Sow is one of my favourites 💜 5y
Tanisha_A @batsy Eeee, i just read it, absolutely love it. "Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness." ? Thanks, my love. 5y
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llwheeler
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In case you can't tell, I had a great time at a friends of the library used book sale today 😁
#bookhaul

Lcsmcat Excellent! 5y
Sace 😍 5y
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Tanisha_A
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The extraordinary patience of things!
We must uncenter our minds from ourselves

Reading for Earth Day. 💚

Severnmeadows Amazing first line. ⭐️ (edited) 6y
JennyM Beautiful x 6y
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Tanisha_A
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What a wonderful talent
That can create an entire Spring
With a brush and a sheet of paper.
If he would try poetry
I know he would be a master of words.

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Love love love this poem!

Chrissyreadit That is a beautiful poem! This book seems to live up to its reviews! 6y
batsy The spirit behind this poem... Lovely ❤️ 6y
tammysue Beautiful 💗 6y
Tanisha_A @Chrissyreadit Certainly! I think this would be one of those books for me which I'd go back to time and again. Thank you! ❤️ 6y
Tanisha_A @batsy @whatshesreadingnow I'd be reading this one from time to time. 🌺 6y
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Tanisha_A
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By Anna Kamienska

Make the world continue
let the ocean kiss the sand just as before

❤️

Cathythoughts ♥️✨ 6y
Tanisha_A @Cathythoughts Sending you a little mail this week! 🙂 6y
Cathythoughts @Tanisha_A what ! Oh this sounds lovely & I know it will be 😘😘😘 6y
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readordierachel Beautiful 💚 6y
JennyM ♥️♥️♥️ 6y
Tanisha_A @readordierachel @JennyM This book has so many precious gems. 🙂 6y
JennyM @Tanisha_A thankyou for sharing. I don‘t tend to read poetry, but your selections are just so perfect. ♥️ 6y
Tanisha_A @JennyM Loveeeeeeee! 6y
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Tanisha_A
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In the night, in the wind, at the edge of the rain,
I find five irises, and call them lovely.
As if a woman, once, lay by them awhile,
then woke, rose, went, the memory of hair
lingers on their sweet tongues.

To irises, which maketh us happy! 💠
#bloom #poetrymatters
@TheSpineView @LazyDays

CaitlinR My favorite flowers. 6y
TheSpineView 💕 6y
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Tanisha_A
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Four in the Morning by Wislawa Szymborska
"No one feels good at four in the morning.
If ants feel good at four in the morning
—three cheers for the ants. And let five o'clock come
if we're to go on living."

I'd never in my life thought of four o'clock in the morning as such, because i am 99.99% times in deep sleep then *touchwood*. But I truly understand how anxious can it be for some. Peace!

JennyM Lol...I‘m up at 4 most days...and I‘m also past 30 🤣😂🤣 6y
Tanisha_A @JennyM This poem is so funny! 😂 6y
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Tanisha_A
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The blurb at the top of the poem: We're separated from nature as if by a glass wall—and this is the subject of this Polish poet, Adam Zagajewski. In this poem, people have their small security in a lighted house, but beyond the window, immeasurable spaces of cosmos stretch, and the moths are like visitors from other galaxies.
#light #poetrymatters @TheSpineView @LazyDays

charl08 Love this - thank you for sharing it. 6y
Tanisha_A @charl08 It's just beautiful right! It reminds me of the fact that how small we are. 🙂 6y
TheSpineView Lovely!💕 6y
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readordierachel Wow. Love the poem and really love your description of it 💖 6y
Tanisha_A @readordierachel I love the description too, but it's not mine. It's given by Czeslaw Milosz. 6y
readordierachel @Tanisha_A Ahh, I see 🙂 6y
Reggie Awesome post! 6y
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Tanisha_A
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[..God is older than the sun and moon
and the eye cannot behold him
nor the voice describe him:
and still, this is the God Hermes, sitting by my hearth.]

Mentioned in the section titled 'Epiphany' in the tagged book, it's one of the strangest poems I have read.

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Tanisha_A
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Thanks @Chrissyreadit! So glad the rest of the parcel made it here!🎈
I am especially happy to be an owner of A Book of Luminous Things. Thank you! 💌 #favouritepoetswap

Tanisha_A @Chrissyreadit I have 2 copies of each now, would you want a set back? 6y
Chrissyreadit I was not charged twice that I‘m aware of. You can send back to book depository? Or ask them? 6y
Chrissyreadit @Trashcanman see...patience was rewarded- it only took 4 months for the books to get to @Tanisha_A 6y
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Tanisha_A @Chrissyreadit Okay, i'll check with them! 6y
Chrissyreadit I am excited about A Book of Luminous Things and plan to get it too- let me know what you think. @Tanisha_A (edited) 6y
Tanisha_A @Chrissyreadit I started reading it last night, and it's such a brilliant collection. Already liking it. 😃 6y
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Ok so when I read the first line I misread it as
“She was buying an eclair”
And now I really want an eclair.

dastevensish And now I do too... 7y
Suet624 Darn it. Now I do too. 7y
Leftcoastzen 😂👍 7y
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Dragon I want an eclair 🐉😀👍 7y
minkyb Ugh oh. I wouldn‘t mind one myself! 7y
RealLifeReading @dastevensish @Suet624 @dragon @minkyb well hopefully someone will get to eat one soon! 😀 7y
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Gina
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The enlightening beauty of art and books...

RealBooks4ever Nice! 💜 8y
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RealLifeReading
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I don't read much poetry so this is one of the very few poetry books I own! This one is an interesting mix of poems and poets from around the world. #augustphotochallenge #augustofpages #poetry

DiruVamp This is on my TBR and I'm not a huge poetry fan either but it sounded really interesting! 8y
DebinHawaii Love the photo-simple and perfect! 💜 8y
RealLifeReading @DiruVamp i dip into it now and then! 8y
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8leagueboot
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I will forever love this anthology for introducing me to the poetry of Tu Fu. #poetryeverydamnday

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8leagueboot
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Chang Yang-Hao hurting my heart all the way from the 14th century this evening... "Empires rise: / people suffer. / Empires fall: /people suffer."

MrBook The beauty of books, eh? Conversations with people long since gone. Looks like a great book! 8y
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8leagueboot
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Some Mary Oliver to soothe your soul. #poetryeverydamnday

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8leagueboot
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As I've said before, I always try to be in the process of reading at least one book of poetry. I think I've been needing this volume's tender approach for a while. #poetryeverydamnday

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