100 Poems To Break Your Heart

100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a PoemImplicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering—not just our own suffering but also the pain of others.

We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record.

And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others.