This book may or may nor lengthen your life, but if defintely will enrich it while bringing a smile to your face and, if not a song, at least a verse or two to your heart. The author is hip and knowledgeable, the ideal guide on this all-expense-paid tour of poetry through the ages. His witty commentary takes you from Homer to Dante to e.e.cummings to Maya Angelou, from imagery to iambic pentameter, with such ease that you won"t even realize you"re having a learning experience.