Poems That Make Grown Men Cry by Anthony Holden

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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry 100 Men on the Words That Move Them Edited by Anthony and Ben Holden Book Details Editors: Anthony Holden and Ben Holden Title: Poems That Make Grown Men Cry Publisher: Simon & Schuster Genre: Poetry Anthology Description A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: "The Holdens remind us that you don't have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse... It's plain fun" (The Wall Street Journal). Grown men aren't supposed to cry. Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men, distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theater and human rights, confess to being moved to tears by poems that continue to haunt them. Although the majority are public figures not prone to crying, here they admit to breaking down, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves. Their selections include classics by visionaries such as Walt Whitman, W.H. Auden, and Philip Larkin, as well as modern works by masters including Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and poets who span the globe from Pablo Neruda to Rabindranath Tagore. The poems chosen range from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first.