Title: A frank, friendly, enthusiastic introduction
Review: This book is a good book for defusing whatever unhappy feelings about poetry the reader may have acquired from formal education.Even someone who already knows a little bit about poetry will likely learn some things from this book, as a sincere effort is made to introduce the reader to poetry from many different cultures and many different ages.The drawback is that this book tries to capture 4700 years of human poetry in 17 pages. I would have been ok with the authors spending a few more pages. "Here's Shakespeare, here's Rumi, moving right along..." That's what made me withhold the fifth star.It's hard to pick ten poems, or ten love poems, for the "List of Tens" section, without being subjective.But still, this is a good book to read for someone who has a desire to create poetry, but doesn't know where to start.
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