Poet's Choice [J0463]

2006 HCDJ with wear - including occasional ink markings and lightly rippled/stiffer pages near the back. Edward Hirsch began writing a column in the Washington Post Book World called "Poet's Choice" 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 130 poets-from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and America, from ancient times to the present-and demonstrates how poetry responds to the challenges of our modern world. Rich, relevant, and inviting, the book reveals how poetry both puts us in touch with ourselves and connects us to each other.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A great source for discovering multiple poets/authors and pieces."; "This book is an excellent selection of poets along with a generally tiny sample of their work. Each poet typically has only a few pages devoted to them, with short explanations of who they were and/or what they were driven by in their poetry."; "Poet's Choice is a curated and heavily annotated anthology of poems from many places around the world and from many eras of history. Reading it was a bit like walking through an art museum with someone who studies art history."; "I liked getting a sense of the people behind the poems."