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Everyman’s Library,hardcover

Publication Date:February 1, 2022

Publisher Marketing:Poets from around the world celebrate the universal appeal of the comforts of home in this unique anthology.

Whether inhabited or remembered, whether solitary or teeming with family, whether a refuge from the world or a connection to a community, home is essential to the self. The poems in this anthology invite us into urban apartments and cozy cottages, stately mansions and hermits huts. We watch a medieval housewife explain how she has spent her day; we join with Robert Herrick as he gives thanks for his humble roofweatherproof; we peep in on Amy Lowell in the bath and John Donne in his bed, and join Joy Harjo at the kitchen table.

Home can mean many things: from Horaces rural farm to Billy Collinss favorite armchair, from Miltons blissful bower in Paradise to Imtiaz Dharkers Living Space in the slums of Mumbai. Mary Oliver imagines her dream house, Emily Dickinson dwells in possibilitya fairer House than Prose, and a wide range of displaced poets long for their home countries: Ovid, Joachim du Bellay, Kapka Kassabova, Mahmoud Darwish, and even Jules Supervielle feeling Homesick for the Earth. Wherever you happen to dwell or whatever your idea of domestic bliss, you are sure to find visions that resonate inPoems of Home.