Dip Into This Inspired Assortment Of Concise Masterpieces, And Draw Out - A Fragment Of Sappho From Ancient Greece, A Perfect Haiku From Japan; A Brief Nature Poem By John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes Or Boris Pasternak; A Compact Love Poem By Alexander Pushkin Or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick Or Carol Ann Duffy; A Miniature Story By Hardy, Rumi Or Roethke; A Pithy Meditation By Wang Wei, Emily Dickinson, Tennyson Or Lorca. Dip Again, And Discover The Compressed Wit Of Dorothy Parker And Ogden Nash; Contemporary Poets Simon Armitage And Moniza Alvi At Their Most Succinct; Short Poems In Very Odd Shapes From Apollinaire And Vaclav Havel. So Few Lines, So Much Variety: Epitaphs And Epigrams; Couplets And Quatrains; Lyrics, Limericks And Lullabies - Go On, Dip Again.