Art thou the thing I wanted / Alice Fulton -- Bonnard's garden / Rick Barot -- Chorale / Kevin Young -- The cossacks / Linda Pastan -- Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta / Reetika Vazirani -- Hum / Ann Lauterbach -- Knowledge / Kim Addonizio -- The legend / Garrett Hongo -- Originally / Carol Ann Duffy -- Rent / Jane Cooper -- The river mumma wants out / Lorna Goodison -- Self-portrait / Adam Zagajewski -- Supernatural love / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- View / Marvin Bell -- Virtue / George Herbert -- Whoso list to hunt / Thomas Wyatt.
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.