A Book of Luminous Things collects over 300 poems, each with a short commentary by the anthology’s editor Czeslaw Milosz. The poems are organized thematically into ten categories with titles like “Nature," “People among People," and “The Secret of a Thing.” Milosz includes a brief statement at the beginning of the sections that introduces the themes that he had in mind when selecting poems for that particular segment of the anthology. Each section contains works by a range of poets who are diverse in geography, culture, and time period. In the introduction to this volume, Milos...