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author: Lucretius ASIN or ISBN-10: 0140447962 binding: Paperback list price: $16.00 USD amazon price: $10.88 USD

The seminal Epicurean text, in a brilliant new translation The Epicureans of ancient Rome discarded the ideas of life after death and of an interventionist God in favor of the tactile pleasures of nature. In The Nature of Things, Lucretius celebrates with wit and sharp perception the extraordinary breadth of the Epicurean belief system, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discovery of fire to the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms.

author: A. E. Stallings ASIN or ISBN-10: 0930982525 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.00 USD amazon price: $15.00 USD

Archaic Smile, by A.E. Stallings, recipient of the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award, uniquely juxtaposes poetic meditations on mythological themes with poems about the everyday occurances of contemporary life -- such as losing an umbrella or fishing with one's father. In doing so, Archaic Smile continually bridges the gap between these two distant but interrelated worlds with striking insights. James Dickey, having praised the author's accomplished critical skills, also points out that she has "the most indispensable quality that a poet must have: an original way of looking at things." A.R.

author: A.E. Stallings ASIN or ISBN-10: 0810151715 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $10.91 USD

Hapax is ancient Greek for "once, once only, once and for all," and "onceness" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of "Aftershocks," this book explores what does and does not survive its "gone moment" - childhood ("The Dollhouse"), ancient artifacts ("Implements from the Grave of the Poet"), a marriage's lost moments of happiness ("Lovejoy Street"). The poems also often compare the ancient world with the modern Greece where Stallings has lived for several years.

author: Gerald Hoberman ASIN or ISBN-10: 1919939229 binding: Hardcover list price: $29.95 USD amazon price: $22.76 USD

"The Carnival in Venice" is a unique cultural statement, a kaleidoscope of European sophistication, finery and fun. Each year, ten days before Lent, merrymakers of all ages brave the icy midwinter weather to converge on Venice, masked and mantled in innovative and imaginative fancy dress. Some exquisite examples are handed down from generation to generation. Hoberman features highly-talented contemporary venetian mask makers and costume designers.

author: GREGORY DOWLING ASIN or ISBN-10: 0727820486 binding: Hardcover

author: Gregory Dowling ASIN or ISBN-10: 0312058152 binding: Hardcover list price: $22.95 USD amazon price: $22.95

author: Gregory Dowling ASIN or ISBN-10: 0312218311 binding: Hardcover list price: $13.95 USD amazon price: $13.95

author: Gregory Dowling ASIN or ISBN-10: 0246132183 binding: Hardcover

author: Gregory Dowling ASIN or ISBN-10: 0312022778 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $15.95

author: Gregory Dowling ASIN or ISBN-10: 0312110359 binding: Hardcover list price: $20.95 USD amazon price: $20.95

Hired to discover the truth about the disappearance of Sir Alfred Ainsley's son, teacher January Esposito becomes caught up in a web of racial attacks, terrorist bombings, drug dealing, art scams, and murder that has its roots fifty years in the past.

author: Timothy Murphy ASIN or ISBN-10: 1885266626 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $12.95

ASIN or ISBN-10: 0321107209 binding: Paperback list price: $15.80 USD amazon price: $15.80 USD

From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Beowulf, edited by Sarah Anderson and translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, includes the complete work and contextual materials on the early medieval age.

author: Timothy Murphy ASIN or ISBN-10: 1904130011 binding: Hardcover list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 USD

author: Tim Murphy ASIN or ISBN-10: 0821413228 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 USD

When Timothy Murphy graduated from college, Robert Penn Warren advised him to go home and grow some roots. This memoir in prose, verse and woodcuts, depicts the consequences of Warren's advice for a writer who turned his back on cities and the academic world.

author: Rachel Hadas ASIN or ISBN-10: 1932023135 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95

author: Dick Davis ASIN or ISBN-10: 1903291143 binding: Paperback list price: $23.95 USD amazon price: $23.47 USD

Interviews of three young yet already established poets, Tim Steele, a California State professor, Dick Davis, an Ohio State professor, and Rachel Hadas, a Rutgers University professor.

author: Rachel Hadas ASIN or ISBN-10: 0819522511 binding: Paperback list price: $18.95 USD amazon price: $16.89 USD

A generous gathering of the best poems, both previously published and uncollected, from Rachel Hadas's career.

author: Rachel Hadas ASIN or ISBN-10: 1933456248 binding: Paperback list price: $17.00 USD amazon price: $17.00 USD

author: Rachel Hadas ASIN or ISBN-10: 0819564400 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 USD

Indelible is Rachel Hadas's first book since her critically acclaimed Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems (1998).

author: DAVID MASON ASIN or ISBN-10: 1597090832 binding: Paperback list price: $18.95 USD amazon price: $18.95

Ludlow is a novel in verse that tells the story of a handful of immigrants Greek, Mexican, Scottish, Italian in southern Colorado, climaxing in the Ludlow Massacre of April 1914, in which elements of the Colorado National Guard killed striking miners and family members.

author: David Mason ASIN or ISBN-10: 0934257841 binding: Paperback list price: $10.95 USD amazon price: $10.95

author: David Mason ASIN or ISBN-10: 1885266200 binding: Hardcover list price: $21.00 USD amazon price: $21.00

author: David Mason ASIN or ISBN-10: 158654036X binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $14.00

Arrivals is the third book of poetry by a master of New Formalism and New Narrative. Winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, Mason examines travel, arrival, home."Acrostic from Aegina"Anemones you brought back from the pathNod in a glass beside our rumpled bed.Now you are far away.

ASIN or ISBN-10: 1885266308 binding: Paperback list price: $15.00 USD amazon price: $15.00

Contributors include:Elizabeth AlexanderJulia AlvarezBruce BawerRafael CampoThomas M. DischFrederick FeirsteinDana GioiaEmily GrosholzRobert Samuel GwynnMarilyn HackerRachel HadasAndrew HudginsPaul LakeSydney LeaBrad LeithauserPhillis LevinCharles MartinMarilyn NelsonMolly PeacockWyatt PruntyMary Jo SalterTimothy Reid SteeleFrederick TurnerRachel WetzsteonGreg Williamson

author: David Mason John Frederick Nims ASIN or ISBN-10: 0072819596 binding: Paperback amazon price: $55.38 USD

WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art.

author: Dana Gioia David Mason Meg Schoerke ASIN or ISBN-10: 0072414723 binding: Paperback amazon price: $55.91 USD

This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes rarely anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhina Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, and Ron Silliman, as well as work by some of the finest younger critics in America, including William Logan, Alice Fulton, and Christian Wiman.

ASIN or ISBN-10: 1885266804 binding: Paperback list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $15.95

ASIN or ISBN-10: 0930982592 binding: Hardcover list price: $20.00 USD amazon price: $20.00 USD

The Sonnet is one of the distinguishing cultural markers of western civilization. Throughout our literary past, the sonnet has been used by our greatest poets--from Petrarch and Shakespeare to Borges and Auden. Now, in the twenty-first century, after a period of general dismissal in the latter decades of the twentieth century, the sonnet is in the midst of an extraordinary revival and has once again returned to the center of the literary landscape.

author: Mark S Bauer ASIN or ISBN-10: 0195336410 binding: Paperback list price: $24.95 USD amazon price: $24.95 USD

"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his critical and clinical introduction to this splendid anthology--the first of its kind--psychiatrist and poet Mark S. Bauer considers mental disorders from multiple perspectives and challenges us to broaden our outlook.

author: Rose Kelleher ASIN or ISBN-10: 190413033X binding: Paperback list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $16.95 USD

It took Waywiser Press' screening panel two months of careful reading, deliberation and discussion to narrow the field, first to twenty semi-finalists, and then to ten finalists. The latter (stripped of all identifying references) were then sent to the 2007 judge, Richard Wilbur. Joe Harrison rang Ms Kelleher with Mr Wilbur's decision in March. Rose Kelleher (b. 1964) grew up in Massachusetts and earned her B.A. in English at UMass Boston. She has worked as a technical writer and programmer, and authored four computer books and numerous technical articles.

author: David Alpaugh ASIN or ISBN-10: 0978578619 binding: Paperback

author: David Alpaugh ASIN or ISBN-10: 0934257558 binding: Paperback list price: $11.95 USD amazon price: $11.95

From the winner of the 7th Annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize comes Counterpoint, a contemporary book of poems with many bizarre twists and zany turns. Alpaugh's subjects include POWs, salespeople, art, and the dead. His work has appeared in many journals such as Asylum, Exquisite Corpse, and Twentieth Century Literature.

author: Rebecca Foust ASIN or ISBN-10: 1933896140 binding: Paperback list price: $8.95 USD amazon price: $8.95 USD

"Centered on the experience of raising a special child and the cruelty we inflict on difference, these poems will break and heal your heart, their rage, hope, insight and love carried by a poetic power as targeted as a bullet-train. . . .

author: Rebecca Foust ASIN or ISBN-10: 1933896272 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $12.95 USD

"Mom's Canoe" is a chapbook of 24 poems rooted in the author's memories of growing up in the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania, an area of rich farmland and thickly wooded hills and valleys that was also the site of heavy coal mining and rail-roading activity in the last century. The eventual decline of those industries and the environmental and economic devastation left in their wake are important themes in this book, which also pays tribute to the enduring natural beauty of the region and to the strength, suffering, and joy of the people who have made their lives there.

author: Andrew Waterman ASIN or ISBN-10: 1857544099 binding: Paperback list price: $29.95 USD amazon price: $29.95 USD

In Collected Poems the poet has selected and revised all the poems he wishes to preserve from his previous books, and he has added others, formerly uncollected, as well as a wealth of recent work.

author: Andrew Waterman ASIN or ISBN-10: 1857548868 binding: Paperback list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $15.95 USD

Mainly set on Sicily's Aeolina Islands, these poems exhibit rich and exhilarating new dimensions in the work of an accomplished poet. As well as referencing current global events and exhibiting an historical reach back through Saracen pirates to the Greeks and beyond, this collection demonstrates the author's exceptional range of themes and moods with wit and technical dexterity. Encompassing warmth, humor, and poignant lyricism, and full of vivid people and places, these poems bring to life universal themes within a distinctive world.

author: Bertha Rogers ASIN or ISBN-10: 0913559598 binding: Paperback list price: $20.00 USD amazon price: $20.00 USD

ASIN or ISBN-10: 1892471477 binding: Paperback list price: $16.00 USD amazon price: $16.00 USD

Cultural Writing. Art. Catalog and Commentary from the 6th Bright Hill Center North American Juried Book Arts Exhibit at Bright Hill Center's Word & Image Gallery, Treadwell, NY. Edited by Bertha Rogers, with commentary by jurors Karen Hanmer and Bertha Rogers.

author: Bertha Rogers ASIN or ISBN-10: 1907056262 binding: Paperback list price: $21.95 USD amazon price: $17.12 USD

Heart Turned Back is about looking and listening; about trying to understand not just humans, but animals and plants and rocks. The poems come from a slow and painstaking education in the things of the world, from learning that we have only a limited time to comprehend, then translate and transform that comprehension into words. The poems love language; they are passionate yet restrained, written in both form and in free verse. Bertha Rogers's poems appear in journals and anthologies and in her four previous collections. She lives in Delhi, New York.

author: Carol Lynn Grellas ASIN or ISBN-10: 1599243482 binding: Paperback

A chapbook of poems.

author: Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas ASIN or ISBN-10: 1596611316 binding: Paperback list price: $9.00 USD amazon price: $9.00 USD

author: John Manesis ASIN or ISBN-10: 0966044975 binding: Paperback

His(John Manesis_ poetry comes withing the deepest roots, With his succint craftsmanship, a reader is immediately brought into this world of displaced people.

author: John Manesis ASIN or ISBN-10: 1592321275 binding: Paperback list price: $15.00 USD amazon price: $15.00 USD

John Manesis explores memory in Other Candle Lights, including many themes related to his Greek American heritage and medical career. The poetry features a range of characters, from the well known, like Elia Kazan and George Vizyenos, to every day people whose voices speak to us. Many of the poems examine the island lore of his ancestors, immigrants departures and returns, and their American experience.

author: Hafiz ASIN or ISBN-10: 1891785427 binding: Paperback list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $16.95 USD

A unique collaboration between a Cistercian monk and a scholar of Islamic translation, this volume offers fresh and distinctive interpretations of works by the spiritual Sufi poet, Hafiz of Shiraz. Combining scholarly precision with keen sensitivity to the mystic contours of the Persian originals, these esoteric verses are rendered into English without forfeiting the artistry or accuracy of the original intent. Knitting together aesthetics and erudition, each poem seeks to be intellectually stimulating and spiritually invigorating.

author: Katharine Coles ASIN or ISBN-10: 1597093904 binding: Paperback list price: $18.95 USD amazon price: $14.78 USD

In Fault, Katharine Coles continues to explore her abiding interest in the intersections of science, culture, and history, but the book is perhaps best described as an extended meditation on love.   Ranging across time and continents, Coles addresses such figures as Newton, Kepler, and Vesalius, not only with intellectual rigor but also with a humor, intimacy, and buoyant optimism that render her subjects—the figures and the science—accessible within the capacious intellectual, emotional, and physical landscapes of the poems.

author: Katharine Coles ASIN or ISBN-10: 0874174805 binding: Paperback list price: $12.00 USD amazon price: $12.00

The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension is the third poetry volume of Katharine Coles, whose work always exciting, has grown with each collection. Her poetry is erotic at the same time it is scientific, and seductively accessible while it is intellectually challenging. The variety and high intelligence of these poems will entertain and gratify while tweaking the reader's interest in the richness of the history Coles so skillfully weaves into her poetic tapestry. Love, the natural world, sensuality, and ideas intertwine irresistibly in this fine collection.

author: Katharine Coles ASIN or ISBN-10: 0874172985 binding: Paperback list price: $12.00 USD amazon price: $12.00

The poems in this collection cover themes such as friendship, family, travel, the western landscape, and ultimately, the love of the world of knowledge, fact and mystery, and relationships.

author: Katharine Coles ASIN or ISBN-10: 087417273X binding: Hardcover list price: $23.00 USD amazon price: $23.00 USD

Abandoned by her father as a child, botanist Grace Stern increasingly begins to turn from the disheartening world of human emotion to the more comforting world of her plants. After the murder of her estranged husband, Grace's father arrives unexpectedly seeking a reconciliation with his daughter.

author: Samantha Le ASIN or ISBN-10: 1891823116 binding: Paperback

This novel is a fictional memoir of a family's struggles through post-war Vietnam and their journey in search of a better life on foreign soil. It is the story of wounded pride, as personified by Father, silent resentment, as depicted by the conventional Mother, and the fragility of innocence, as embodied by our young heroine. The novel takes us from the private struggles of familial bonds to the public crumbling of old traditions. This novel tells the universal tales of all immigrants in the United States through the eyes of a young girl.

author: Samantha Le ASIN or ISBN-10: 1891823035 binding: Paperback

Corridors is a collection of visually refreshing, and literary accomplished poems. Samantha Le, in her debut effort, exhibits a vibrant confidence, alluding to a poetic preoccupation of the fist order. The poems are self-referential but compassionate, objective but personal. The prose is reminiscent of Paz’s Agulia y Sol, Dario’s Azul, and Rimbaud’s Illuminations in its tendency to expose the poetic and mystical side of intersubjective human experiences. The work, as a whole, forms a loose narrative of coming-of-age poetry.

author: Rachel Hadas ASIN or ISBN-10: 0914278843 binding: Paperback list price: $12.00 USD amazon price: $12.00 USD

author: David Yezzi ASIN or ISBN-10: 0810151456 binding: Paperback list price: $11.95 USD amazon price: $11.95 USD

From the huddling men in a Rembrandt print to an image in a bathroom mirror that might be Christ or a mere smudge, David Yezzi, with his precisely carved and subtly cutting language, questions and considers the surfaces of our perceptions and the life they conceal-that which suggests, asks, demands to be seen.

author: David Yezzi ASIN or ISBN-10: 0804011133 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $12.95 USD

Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience—a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene. The ever-present and uncomfortable realities of envy, lust, and mortality haunt the book from poem to poem.

ASIN or ISBN-10: 0804011214 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 USD

The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets gathers the work of thirty–five of the most compelling and talented new poets writing today. Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology identifies a group of poets who have recently begun to make an important mark on contemporary poetry, and their accomplishment and influence will only grow with time.

author: Ernest Hilbert ASIN or ISBN-10: 1597093610 binding: Paperback list price: $18.95 USD amazon price: $14.78 USD

A.E. Stallings writes that “like the minutes of the hour, these Sixty Sonnets both combine to make a whole and shine as individual moments. While groups of these sonnets occasionally suggest a narrative—refreshingly, like the fugitives and weary academics that people these pages—they work alone. The newspaper crime blotter itself, from which, perhaps, some of these incidents are torn, speaks up as a single sonnet.

author: Lorna Knowles Blake ASIN or ISBN-10: 0912592613 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 USD

Lorna Knowles Blake is a poet who writes with elegance, wit, and formal invention. Her subjects are love, marriage, family, and the kinds of commitment needed to sustain them. Reading her work, one sees again and again the contingencies of domestic life transformed by those rituals that give them place and permanence. Permanent Address is a wise and joyful collection by a poet of impressive accomplishment. - Charles Martin.

author: McLean Susan ASIN or ISBN-10: 0930982681 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.00 USD amazon price: $15.00 USD

The Best Disguise by Susan McLean, recipient of the 2009 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkable collection of varied lyric poems that examine contemporary life with wit, insight, and a profound intensity. As Philip Dacey comments, "In any mode -- plangent or bawdy, searing or witty -- the poems in this book consistently project both a consummate artistry and an affecting humanity." Despite the author s obvious erudition and formal skills, the poems in The Best Disguise are as accessible as they are affecting and memorable.

author: Melvin Jules Bukiet ASIN or ISBN-10: 0312167601 binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $14.00

In 1945 the Allied forces are trekking across Europe, pausing incidentally to free the Jews from Hitler's camps. Newly emerged from the ashes, three ex-prisoners--a logician, a saint and a schemer--come together. Led by 19-year-old Isaac Kaufman, this trio joins forces in survival to exploit the only industry up and running in a crippled German town, the black market--until they discover and decide to steal a four foot cube: "18 tons of golden ingots created from the fillings pried from the teeth of the Jews of Eastern Europe.".

author: Melvin Jules Bukiet ASIN or ISBN-10: 0393323595 binding: Paperback list price: $22.95 USD amazon price: $22.95 USD

Blind, homosexual, Russian émigré speechwriter Nathan Kazakov has enough problems even before his left ear is obliterated by a bullet presumably meant for the Israeli prime minister. Determined to solve the mystery, Nathan begins exploring a web of conspiracies involving messianic orthodox settlers, Arab terrorists, and the Israeli secret service. Was the bullet intended for Nathan after all? or perhaps for the prime minister's son Gabriel, an archaeologist who shuns his father's politics? One trail leads to Leviticus, another beneath the Temple Mount.

author: Melvin Jules Bukiet ASIN or ISBN-10: 0393058166 binding: Hardcover list price: $23.95 USD amazon price: $23.95

The wicked exploits of an assortment of louts and losers occupy Melvin Jules Bukiet's profligate imagination in these delectable stories. The title of Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists. An aspiring writer stalks Vladmir Nabokov across midtown Manhattan one afternoon in the summer of Watergate. A young co-ed's seduction of her elderly philosophy professor delivers her an A and him lasting happiness. Max, "a liar and a voyeur, like any true artist," wanders the East Village taking photographs of murder victims.

author: Melvin Jules Bukiet ASIN or ISBN-10: 0815604971 binding: Paperback list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $16.95 USD

A collection of imaginative and humorous short stories by Melvin Jules Bukiet which often end in madness, death or religious epiphany.

author: Melvin Jules Bukiet ASIN or ISBN-10: 0299180743 binding: Paperback list price: $17.95 USD amazon price: $17.95 USD

In Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet inscribes the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and the rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social, and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.

ASIN or ISBN-10: 0986533807 binding: Paperback list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $16.95 USD

The Able Muse Anthology — from the new Able Muse Press — celebrates Able Muse's journey through its first decade and beyond, by showcasing the best of the published poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, art and photography, including a foreword by Timothy Steele. This anthology has received high praise and acclaim from Dana Gioia, David Mason, Charles Martin, Catharine Savage-Brosman, X.J. Kennedy, Catharine Savage Brosman and others. PRAISE FOR THE ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY:

author: Thaisa Frank ASIN or ISBN-10: 158243719X binding: Hardcover list price: $25.00 USD amazon price: $19.00 USD

Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at the seams. The Third Reich’s strong reliance on the occult and its obsession with the astral plane has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribes—translators responsible for answering letters written to those eventually killed in the concentration camps.Into this covert compound comes a letter written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist, who is now lost in the dying thralls of Auschwitz. How will the scribes answer this letter?

author: Rebecca Foust ASIN or ISBN-10: 1886976244 binding: Paperback list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $15.95 USD

Poetry. "Foust brings to life an immense range of experience and feeling. This poet's emotional intelligence correlates, too, with her formal skill, that unique talent for phrase and rhythm with which she makes a whole world palpable. A superb poet and a tremendous book"--Peter Campion.

ASIN or ISBN-10: 0393060837 binding: Hardcover list price: $39.95 USD amazon price: $26.37 USD

Three thousand years of the greatest Greek poetry, exquisitely translated and assembled in a handsome volume sure to be a modern classic. This landmark volume captures three millennia of Greek poetry—more than 1,000 poems and 200 poets. From the epics of Homeric Greece to the historical and erotic ironies of Cavafy, from the romances, hymns, and bawdy rhymes of Byzantium to the innovative voices of a resurgent twentieth century, this anthology brings together the diverse strands of the Greek poetic tradition.