Offers a collection of poems by world poets including Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Emily Dickinson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rumi, and Chuang Tzu.

Sexual politics, social awareness, literary irreverence-Carolyn Kizer is the indisputable grande dame of American letters. Never afraid to say what is on her mind, in her poetry Kizer has always done so with both grace and flair. For four decades she has been one of the most influential, controversial, and recognizable figures in American poetry: as an early feminist, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, as a Roethke student, as the first director of the National...