Float
by Anne Carson | 
Don't Let Me Be Lonely
by Claudia Rankine | 
Men In The Off Hours
by Anne Carson | 
Plainwater
by Anne Carson | 
The Far Field
by Theodore Roethke | 
Garbage
by A. R. Ammons | 
Lighthead
by Terrance Hayes | 
The Bridge
by Hart Crane | 
Actual Air
by David Berman | 
Spring and All
by William Carlos Williams | 
Words Under the Words
by Naomi Shihab Nye | 
The Lives of the Heart
by Jane Hirshfield | 
The Art of Drowning
by Billy Collins | 
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
by Oscar Wilde | 
Sappho
by Bliss Carman | 
Loose Woman
by Sandra Cisneros | 
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot | 
Eros the Bittersweet
by Anne Carson | 
This Craft of Verse
by Jorge Luis Borges | 
The Beauty of the Husband
by Anne Carson |
Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay," a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Brontė sisters; "Book of Isaiah," a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome," about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there.