A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual.

From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind.Poems of Healinggathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donnes Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse and Emily Dickinsons The Soul has Bandaged moments to Eavan Bolands Anorexic, from W.H. Audens Miss Gee” to Lucille Cliftons Cancer, and from D.H. Lawrences The Ship of Death to Rafael Campos Antidote and Seamus Heaneys Miracle.

Hardcover: 240 pages