The Book of Poetry for Hard Times cd and Beyoncé

and Beyoncé

The extraordinary people who passed through their lives are also pictured: Sam Shepard

Whether you’re an artist

Extensive critical notes by editors Seán Lawlor and John Pilling detail the circumstances of their composition

The Book of Poetry for Hard Times cd and BeyoncéRobert Pinsky, our finest living example of [the American civic poet] ( New York Times ), gathers poems that cope with the most extreme human emotions. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion. Poems get under our skin; they offer solace with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Book of Poetry for Hard Times , former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky curates