Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: Poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion. "For anyone who knows these human feelings--and almost everyone does--this Book will become an essential companion."--Eavan Boland.
Each poem reveals something new about our most profound and universal experiences; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry.
In The Book of Poetry for Hard Times , former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky curates poems that explore the expanses of human emotion across centuries, from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood.
Poems get under our skin; they offer solace with the balm, and the sting, of understanding.
Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: Poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion
