A collection of over four hundred poems written in many parts of the English-speaking world in the twentieth century, including works by Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Chinua Achebe, Bob Dylan, Sylvia Plath, and John Updike, with brief biographies of each poet represented.

"The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise - the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux." Thus John...

"This collection of poetry offers voice to the unsung people of a small city in the Southwest"--Provided by publisher.

"You are invited on a journey through this collection of poetry from Haiku and Tanka to Free Verse, Non-Rhyming, and Rhyming. Ponder here to observe the visual representation, realize the meaning of words and be inspired by the depth of expression. Allow the experience to Stir your Soul..."--

Accompanied by enchanting artwork, this brilliant collection of more than 100 poems from the legendary author celebrates childhood, showing just how wonderful it is to be a kid.

"Aunt Carmen is impatient with cerebral notions of faith, but she knows her saints - their stories, their sorrows, and their joys. Through her they emerge: El Santo Nino, the mischievous Holy Child; the doting father, San Jose; and the bold Santa Maria Magdalena, whom Carmen imagines walking into church "in heels and short skirts." And in Carmen's prayers to them, she finds the words to tell her own story."--BOOK JACKET. "We know that Aunt Carmen,...

"Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experimental diaries, traditional genres, the postmodern series, the newly invented epic, political observation and invective, and the poem as novel. This chronological selection of her most notable work offers a delineation of her life and creative development. Formerly associated with the second generation...

A stunning collection of poems that Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book. The opening sequence, "Endpoint, " is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness ... For Updike, the writing of poetry was always a special joy, and this final collection is an eloquent and...