Description

It contains poems by famous and unknown poets spanning 41 centuries, from ancient Egyptian papyri scribes to Nobel Prize winners in literature. Modern poets such as Mary Oliver, Vislava Szymborska, Jean Ruslo, Octavio Pas, Ishikawa Dakuboku, Arab and Indian medieval poets such as Jalaludin Rumi, Kabir, Omar Khayyam, and Inuit Indians , 77 poems by a Japanese clog maker, and a Tibetan sage.