CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz'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. MiÅ‚osz provides a preface to each of these poems, divided into thematic (and often beguiling) sections, such as €œTravel,€ €œHistory,€ and €œThe 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. "