Hacht, Anne Marie

Provides a comprehensive, alphabetically-arranged overview of literary works including plays, poetry, short stories, novels, and nonfiction from "Absalom, Absalom" to "Little House on the Prairie.".

Presents profiles of sixteen poems by writers such as Mary Jo Band, Carl Phillips, Ben Jonson, Stephen Dobyns, and others, providing poem texts and summaries, author biographies, criticism excerpts, and discussion of theme, style, and historical context.

Profiles approximately twenty poems by such writers as Charles Baudelaire, Faroogh Farrokhzaad, and Eamon Grennan, providing poem texts and summaries, author biographies, criticism excerpts, and discussion of theme, style, and historical context.

Profiles approximately twenty poems by such writers as Nelly Sachs, Federico Garc?a Lorca, and Sappho, providing poem texts and summaries, author biographies, criticism excerpts, and discussion of theme, style, and historical context.

Profiles approximately twenty poems by such writers as Wislawa Szymborska, Adrienne Rich, and Rita Dove, providing poem texts and summaries, author biographies, criticism excerpts, and discussion of theme, style, and historical context.