“We see … / That art is sacrifice and self-control, / And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.”

Everyman’s Library (now an imprint of Knopf) has long been noted for small, often relatively inexpensive hardbound editions of classic works. This tradition continues with a contemporary series of Pocket Poetry anthologies in the same trim (though with less flexible covers), which I’ve been collecting over the years—they make for good portable/travel reading. Here’s some short takes on twenty I’ve read and retained over a couple decades:

( anthologies from Arabic to Zen )

Waiting in the wings after the bug bits are Fairy Poems, Border Lines: Poems of Migration, and Poems of London, all of which I’m looking forward to. As well as selling off Marriage Poems (unless anyone wants it?)

---L.

Subject quote from An American to France, Alice Duer Miller.