Thomson/Gale Group, 2004. — 377 p. — ISBN-10: 078766958X — ISBN-13: 978-0787669584.
Profiles approximately twenty poems by such writers as Sandra Cisneros, Michael Ondaatje, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, providing poem texts and summaries, author biographies, criticism excerpts, and discussion of theme, style, and historical context.And What If I Spoke of Despair by Ellen Bass.
The Boy by Marilyn Hacker.
Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke.
The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje.
The City Limits by A. R. Ammons.
His Speed and Strength by Alicia Ostriker.
Ithaka by C. P. Cavafy.
Once Again I Prove the Theory.
of Relativity by Sandra Cisneros.
On Location in the Loire Valley by Diane Ackerman.
Ordinary Words by Ruth Stone.
Perfect Light by Ted Hughes.
Proem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Seven Seeds by Jill Bialosky.
Social Life by Tony Hoagland.
Somewhere I have never travelled,gladly beyond by E. E. Cummings.
True Night by Gary Snyder.
