An interesting selection of work from poets well known as Pulitzer Prize winners and National Book Award winners, U.S. Poet Laureates and prior editors of this series—-Robert Hass, Richard Wilbur, Gerald Stern, Charles Simic, Rae Armentrout, John Ashbery, Billy Collins, Terance Hayes, Jane Hershfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Robert Pinsky, Katha Pollitt, James Schuyler, Mark Strand, Natasha Trethaway, David Wagner (editor 2009), C.K. Williams, and Charles Wright.  Also from lesser known poets including one yet to publish her first book!  Some wonderful works, lines, and phrases.  The introduction by David Lehman, editor of the series, is one of the best pieces on what poetry is, including quotes from Coleridge, Pound, Auden, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost, Shelley, Hazlitt, McLeish, Stein, Stevens, Johnson, Moore and Pope.