Author: Housden, Roger

DANCING WITH JOY: 99 Poems, edited by Roger Housden, at $20.00 (H) from Harmony Books, ISBN 030734195X - 9780307341952. In his Ten Poems anthologies, Housden gathered poems for a variety of moods. Now he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal. For Wislawa Szymborska, it's a dream; for Robert Bly, his ten-year-old son; for Gerald Stern, a grapefruit. Housden includes classical and romantic works, early Chinese and Persian verse, poets from Chile, France, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Turkey and India, and a range of contemporary American and English poets. 24 pp.