Moving seamlessly between private lyric and public documents such as the Declaration of Independence, accounts of near-death experiences, letters and testimonies of African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and survivors' reports of recent immigrants and refugees, these are poems on a variety of scales and in a diverse chorus of voices. This is a potent and luminous book by one of America's essential poets. [From publisher's description]

Distillation of poems from fifteen diverse volumes.

Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.