The Far Field
by Theodore Roethke | 
Garbage
by A. R. Ammons | 
Lighthead
by Terrance Hayes | 
The Bridge
by Hart Crane | 
Actual Air
by David Berman | 
Spring and All
by William Carlos Williams | 
Words Under the Words
by Naomi Shihab Nye | 
The Lives of the Heart
by Jane Hirshfield | 
The Art of Drowning
by Billy Collins | 
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
by Oscar Wilde | 
Sappho
by Bliss Carman | 
Loose Woman
by Sandra Cisneros | 
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot | 
The Leaf and the Cloud
by Mary Oliver | 
Questions About Angels
by Billy Collins | 
A Poet's Glossary
by Edward Hirsch | 
Gabriel
by Edward Hirsch | 
The Living Fire
by Edward Hirsch | 
Special Orders
by Edward Hirsch | 
Earthly Measures
by Edward Hirsch |
Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet's Choice" in the Washington Post Book World 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 one hundred poets from ancient times to the present--among them Sappho, W. B. Yeats, Czeslaw Milosz, Primo Levi, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Amy Lowell, Mark Strand, and many more--and shares them with all of Hirsch's inimitable enthusiasm and joy. Rich, relevant, and inviting, the book offers us the fruits of a life lived in poetry.