The Dance

A celebratory anthology of poetry about the dance and the dancer captures dances of all kinds and from around the world--whirling dervishes, wedding waltzes, disco, ballet, flamenco, and reels and jigs--in works by more than 150 poets, including Li Po, Shakespeare, Milton, Rilke, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Merrill, Hafez, and Rimbaud. 10,000 first printing.