"Children are poets before they grow up and they should live with poems. I hope this book will encourage them to do so."—Eleanor Roosevelt Beloved and treasur

Gathers poems from each period of Hall's career, including "The One Day," the long poem that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

This is a comprehensive anthology that brings into its fold the works of 38 prominent poets of British, American and Indian origin. It thus breaks geographical

Kenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry" (David Lehman), here takes on the classic poetic device