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Product DescriptionWinner or finalist in the "Best Books" National Book Award Poetry Anthology of the Year; Benjamin Franklin Audio Book of the Year; Foreword Magazine Audio Book of the Year; and the Bill Fisher Award for Best New Fiction. Be prepared for the unusual as professional actors bring the poems of The Giant Book of Poetry to life in these dramatic interpretations. Poems are grouped by Priorities; The march of time; Dust unto dust; A passageway; Heaven, hell, purgatory; Immortality; and The end of the world. Fifty-One poems in total. The Giant Book of Poetry2006 | 752 | ISBN: 0976800128The Giant Book of Poetry is an illustrated anthology of over 575 poems, more than 750 pages and over 60 illustrations representing ancient, classical, modern, and contemporary time periods along with a good selection of English translations of world poets. Footnotes include notes on form, definitions for unusual words, and hints on interpretation. The book includes an introduction by the editor and an appendix covering poetry meter, as well as indexes by author, title, subject, source language, and first line. ...About the AuthorWilliam Roetzheim authored seventeen published books, over 100 articles, three columns, and fifteen spoken word CDs. He was winner or finalist in "Best Books" National Poetry Anthology of the Year and Poetry Book of the Year; Benjamin Franklin Audio Book of the Year; Foreword Magazine Audio Book of the Year; and the Bill Fisher Award for Best New Fiction.Pages of The Giant Book of Poetry (2006) :