The Giant Book of Poetry by William Roetzheim (editor), ISBN: 978-0-9768001-3-2, Softcover, Illustrated, 29.95, 752 pages.

Winner or finalist for "Best Books" National Book Award Poetry Anthology of the Year; Benjamin Franklin Audio Book of the Year; Foreword Magazine Audio Book of the Year; Bill Fisher Award for Best New Fiction; and Library Journal recommended.

The nation’s top poets rave:

"The Giant Book of Poetry is bursting at the seams with the kind of poems that people need to be reading."--Billy Collins, Former Poet Laureate of the United States

"This book is the result of a massive amount of love and work by its editor, William Roetzheim, and the result is a comprehensive collection of many of the most important poems and poets of all time. It belongs in the collection of every poetry lover."--Mark Strand, Former Poet Laureate of the United States and a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.

"When’s the last time someone released an affordable single volume anthology covering ancient, classical, modern, world, and contemporary poetry? The time is right for this book."--Mark Cox, winner of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, The Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize, and numerous fellowships including Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place.

"An illustrated poetry anthology over 750 pages long for $29.95? Even first time poetry readers won’t be frightened off by this book."--David Budbill, winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Play Writing Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for Fiction in.

"Part anthology, part textbook, The Giant Book of Poetry brings together a chorus of voices, from an anonymous poet writing in 4000 BC through poets of the 21st century."—Molly Fisk, winner of fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Marin Arts Council. She has won the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize in Poetry, and the Billee Murray Denny Prize.

Covers poetry from 4000 BC to today, plus world poetry. The most comprehensive anthology available for the money.

Consistently positive reviews in the journals:

• The Blind Man's Rainbow: Journal of Poetry and Art, called it: “A wonderful collection that would be useful in the classroom or for the poetry lover…"

• The Library Journal said: "Recommended for all collections."

• The Pulse (Chattanooga's Weekly Alternative), said "a perfect introduction to poetry."

• Benjamin Franklin Award - Best New Fiction Voice judges said: "If a reader was to own just one poetry anthology, it should be this one."

• Skylar Hamilton Burris Online Book Reviews said, “This would make a fine gift for someone who is just beginning to develop an interest in poetry.”

Authors include

Patience Agbabi; Anna Akhmatova; Claribel Alegria; Agha Shahid Ali; Anonymous; Petronius Arbiter; Archilochos; Margaret Atwood; W.H. Auden; Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones); Charles Baudelaire; David Berman; Charles Bernstein; The Bible; Elizabeth Bishop; Lucian Blaga; William Blake; Louise Bogan; Emily Bronte; Rupert Brooke; Gwendolyn Brooks; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Sharon Bryan; William Cullen Bryant; David Budbill; Robert Burns; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Thomas Campion; Thomas Carew; Lewis Carroll; Hayden Carruth; Kate Clanchy; John Clare; Andrei Codrescu; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Billy Collins; William Congreve; Nancy Vieira Couto; Abraham Cowley; Mark Cox; Stephen Crane; Robert Creeley; Jim Daniels; W.H. Davies; Toi Derricotte; Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill; James Dickey; Emily Dickinson; Thomas Disch; Stephen Dobyns; John Donne; Keith Douglas; Michael Drayton; William Drummond; Alan Dugan; Stuart Dybek; T.S. Eliot; Black Elk; Ralph Waldo Emerson; B.H. Fairchild; Irving Feldman; Eugene Field; Molly Fisk; Jane Flanders; Jorie Forwar; Robert Frost; Gu Gheng; Lorna Goodison; Robert Greene; Eamon Grennan; Thom Gunn; Donald Hall; Mark Halliday; Thomas Hardy; Kevin Hart; Kaylin Haught; Seamus Heaney; Robert Hedin; Ernest Hemingway; William Ernest Henley; Tom Hennen; Robert Herrick; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Jackleen Holton; Thomas Hood; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Horace; A.E. Housman; David Huddle; Langston Hughes; David Ignatow; Mark Irwin; Wen I-to; Randall Jarrell; Robinson Jeffers; Louis Jenkins; Jokun; Richard Jones; Roberto Juarroz; Donald Justice; Julia Kasdorf; John Keats; Brigit Pegeen Kelly; Miyazawa Kenji; Omar Khayam; Joyce Kilmer; Charles Kingsley; Galway Kinnell; Robert Kinsley; Rudyard Kipling; Carolyn Kizer; Etheridge Knight; Yusef Komunyakaa; Ted Kooser; Rutger Kopland; Walter Savage Landor; Sidney Lanier; Philip Larkin; D.H. Lawrence; Robert Lax; Edward Lear; Li-Young Lee; Denise Levertov; Philip Levine; Larry Levis; Vachel Lindsay; Gerald Locklin; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Richard Lovelace; Amy Lowell; Robert Lowell; Archibald MacLeish; Edgar Lee Masters; William Matthews; Gail Mazur; Heather McHugh; Edna St. Vincent Millay; John Milton; Adrian Mitchell; Marianne Moore; Thomas Moore; Moritake; Lisel Mueller; Jack Myers; James B Naylor; Howard Nemerov; William Butler Nordbrandt; Alden Nowlan; Sean O'Brien; Sharon Olds; Wilfred Owen; Heberto Padilla; Dan Pagis; Coventry Patmore; Brian Patten; Michael Pettit; Robert Phillips; Robert Pinsky; Li Po; Edgar Allan Poe; Ezra Pound; Edwin Arlington Robinson; William Roetzheim; Roka; Christina Georgina Rossetti; Timothy Russell; Ryusui; Carl Sandburg; Izet Sarajlic; Philip Schultz; Ruth Schwartz; Marjorie Allen Seiffert; Robert Service; Anne Sexton; William Shakespeare; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Richard Shelton; Mei Sheng; (Masaoka Tsunenori) Shiki ; Tanikawa Shuntaro; Sir Philip Sidney; Edward Rowland Sill; Charles Simic; David Slavitt; Dave Smith; Stevie Smith; Gary Snyder; Robert Southey; William Stafford; Maura Stanton; Gertrude Stein; Charles Perkins Stetson; Wallace Stevens; Robert Louis Stevenson; Richard Henry Stoddard; Mark Strand; Sir John Suckling; Joyce Sutphen; May Swenson; Sara Teasdale; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Dylan Thomas; Shu Ting; Mark Turpin; Louis Untermeyer; Diane Wakoski; Derek Walcott; Ronald Wallace; William Walsh; Tom Wayman; Bruce Weigl; Walt Whitman; John Greenleaf Whittier; Richard Wilbur; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; C.K. Williams; Miller Williams; William Carlos Williams; William Wordsworth; Sir Henry Wotton; James Wright; William Butler Yeats; Dean Young; Tao Yuan-ming; Adam Zabajewski; Zawgee; and Paul Zimmer.