From Sappho and Li Bai to Sandra Cisneros and Ocean Vuong: a pocket-sized treasury of tiny
jewel-like poems from around the world and through the agesA lovely pocket-sized volume. . . .
I read it cover to cover speeding through the centuries. --Elisa Gabbert The New York Times
Book Review Short poems have been popular for centuries from the famous fragments of Sappho in
ancient Greece to the traditional haiku of Japan from the Imagist poems of Ezra Pound and H.
D. to the witty couplets of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash from lyrical gems by Shakespeare and
Rumi to modern classics by W. H. Auden and Margaret Atwood. This collection brings together
brief poems defined as fewer than fourteen lines from a wide range of poetic traditions.
Together they make for enjoyable reading and easy memorizing and provide a wealth of
appropriate lines ready-made to copy into a card or an email. For any poetry lover and anyone
short on reading time Little Poems offers a generous supply of verses that surprise amuse
move and delight. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards printing on
acid-free cream-colored paper with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping decorative
endpapers silk ribbon markers European-style half-round spines and a full-color illustrated
jacket.
