The Eloquent Poem

"The Eloquent Poem is an anthology of previously unpublished poetry by the country's most renown poets (e.g. Billy Collins, Paul Muldoon, Marilyn Nelson, Edward Hirsch, Rosanna Warren), divided into fourteen sections by poetic mode or approach (e.g. ars poetica, persona poems, ekphrastic poems). The book includes a short essay on each poem by the poet about the poem's genesis and how it fits into the tradition of the section in which it is included"--