I don't know how to rate this book. I am a beginner reader of poetry and the poems in this book felt too contemporary for my very basic, very classic tastes. Most of them I didn't care about. And yet. There were some poems, or sometimes only a couple of lines from them, that made me happy. That made me pause. That made me cry. That made me angry (and then I spent an evening trying to figure out why they made me angry). I want to buy the book and reread some of them. I want to buy it and from time to time open it at random and see how it makes me feel. What it makes me think about. Whether my impression changes (it surely will).