A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: "The Holdens remind us that you don't have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse....It's plain fun" (The Wall Street Journal).

Grown men aren't supposed to cry...Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men--distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theater and human rights--confess to being moved to tears by poems that continue to haunt them. Although the majority are public figures not prone to crying, here they admit to...

The internationally bestselling collection of poetry so powerful that it has moved readers to tears. "Anthony and Ben Holden remind us that you don't have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse" (The Wall Street Journal).

One hundred women--distinguished in literature and film, science and law, theater and human rights--share poems that have stayed with them long after reading. The poems here range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcott to...