From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne s Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse and Emily Dickinson s The Soul has Bandaged moments to Eavan Boland s Anorexic, from W.H. Auden s Miss Gee to Lucille Clifton s Cancer, and from D.H. Lawrence s The Ship of Death to Rafael Campo s Antidote and Seamus Heaney s Miracle. Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain–in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski s Try to Praise the Mutilated World, George Herbert s The Flower, Wislawa Szymborska s The End and the Beginning, Gwendolyn Brooks when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story and Stevie Smith s Away, Melancholy –make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing.