""America's favorite poet" (the Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love--all in a handful of lines. Neither Haiku nor limerick, and certainly not a gimmick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry's famed power to condense emotional and conceptual content into small spaces. Taken together the more...

"Discover moody, passionate, and emotional verses that have inspired artists and lyricists for generations. Featuing over one hundred poems by tortured poets, including Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Sappho, William Shakespeare, and Lewis Caroll, this must-have anthology explores themes of: love, heartache, revenge, folkore & peace. Whatever era you're in, there's a poem that will speak to you"--Page 4 of cover....

A bold new anthology of poems that contend with the most extreme human emotions, from former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.

"Poems focusing on universal emotions, as expressed by poets from diverse backgrounds, including Joseph Bruchac, Nikki Grimes, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Pat Mora, Janet S. Wong, and many others"--Provided by publisher.

Ten-year-old Benjamin Giroux's iconic poem conveys what it's like to live with autism.