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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

10 best books like A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (Czesław Miłosz): View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems, Talking to My Body, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, The Enlightened Heart, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology, Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, Without End: New and Selected Poems, Book of My Nights, Poet's Choice, Collected Poems

View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
AuthorWisława Szymborska
ISBN0156002167
Nobel poetry! This got under my skin!

I think I owe it partly to this collection that I started loving modern poetry and sharing this love with the next generation.

I remember a class when we read Szymborska's "Some Like Poetry". We took it apart, and wrote our own poems following the...
Talking to My Body
AuthorAnna Świrszczyńska
Anna Swir's poetry is featured in the best-selling anthologies Ten Poems to Set You Free and Risking Everything

Anna Swir (1909–1984) famously said “A poet should be as sensitive as an aching tooth.” Swir was one of Poland’s most distinguished poets, and she was open in her feminism...
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060925760
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.

My favorites were:

p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
The Enlightened Heart
AuthorStephen Mitchell
An anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions--the perfect companion to the bestselling Tao Te Ching.

• The Upanishads • The Book of Psalms • Lao-tzu • The Bhagavad Gita • Chuang-tzu • The Odes of Solomon • Seng-ts'an • Han-shan •...
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology
AuthorRobert Bly
ISBN0060924209
This is one of my favorite all-time poetry anthologies. I picked it up at a discount bookstore in San Francisco, back when I was still a reader searching for the right books. And I swear, back when I was reading mostly fiction and memoir, and my depression was making nonsense of my writing, this book brought...
Words Under the Words: Selected Poems
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0933377290
These poems are really beautiful.. here is one for you.

Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all...
Without End: New and Selected Poems
AuthorAdam Zagajewski
ISBN0374528616
I love to swim in the sea, which keeps
talking to itself
in the monotone of a vagabond
who no longer recalls
exactly how long he's been on the road.
Swimming is like prayer:
palms join and part,
join and part,
almost without end.
--from "On Swimming"

Without...
Book of My Nights
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN1929918089
Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually...
Poet's Choice
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0156032678
Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than...
Collected Poems
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555974287
Jane Kenyon is considered one of America's best contemporary poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print, and is a contemporary classic.

Now at the ten-year...
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0393309762
I read this for my Poetry & Protest class and I just wanted to catalogue the poems that I read on Goodreads. I'd love to read this whole collection someday and hopefully I will, but for now, here are the poems that I have read:

"A Working Party" by Siegfried Sassoon
Really intense poem that...
Selected Poems
AuthorDenise Levertov
ISBN0811215202
Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry -- the work of a...
The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets
AuthorDominic Luxford
ISBN1932416811
The first McSweeney's foray into contemporary poetry brings together 100 poems by 50 poets in ten poet-chains, and making the publisher wonder why it waited so long to try this. How it works: Ten poets choose a poem of their own and a poem by another poet, who then does the same, and so on unto the fifth generation....
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
AuthorTina Chang
ISBN0393332381
A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.

Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection...
A Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now
AuthorAliki Barnstone
ISBN0805209972
A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of...
American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry
AuthorCole Swensen
ISBN0393333752
As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration....
The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
AuthorIlya Kaminsky
ISBN0061583243
When your thoughts
don’t take you too far
and you are silent
as you tremble
and gaze
at the trellis of your hands.

When the chariot of your imagination
does not lead you into tunnels
lit up with apprehensions
and lightnings
as you remain silent
and...
Delights and Shadows
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN1556592019
American author Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and Shadows, Kooser draws inspiration...
The Poets Laureate Anthology
AuthorElizabeth Hun Schmidt
ISBN0393061817
This is a wonderful, huge volume of poetry anthologizing all those poets who've served as the nation's Poet Laureate or--as the position was originally appointed--as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. They range from Joseph Auslander (1937) to W. S. Merwin (2010), the outgoing laureate...
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
AuthorNeil Astley
ISBN1401359264
Assembling a diverse mix of contemporary poets-Mary Oliver, W.H. Auden, Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rita Dove, and hundreds more-Staying Alive is a unique anthology that illuminates the vital force of our humanity, the passion of our aspirations, the power of...
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