This stunning boxed set is an elegant collection of ten of the greatest poets ever. If you ve never really got poetry, or if you have but would like to get more out of great poems, then this is the book for you Manley Hopkins, Rilke, Yeats, Czeslaw Milosz, Jack Gilbert and Katie Donovan are all here, among the many poets, writers and translators whose work makes up Staying Alive, the worlds best-selling anthology of contemporary poetry.This anthology, expanded for this second edition, includes forty poets — including ten new additions — from thirty-five countries, and offers the reader the life that I have There is an extensive and illuminating introduction, a re notations section in which poets explain their work, and a suite of indexes to help the reader find the right poem, including an index of forms.” Plus, there’s a great journal where readers can jot down what they think the first time they read a poem or maybe even start writing some of their own! Soulful, sweet and funny by turns, these are works that have enchanted a good many readers, and will continue to do so for years to come.