Different from the usual introduction to poetry textbook because all the terms like enjambment and alliteration are defined in the back in the glossary only and the emphasis is on the poems themselves, and on the feeling of the poems more than their meaning. Also the choice of poems is different, with less emphasis on the great names of English language poetry to include more poetry in translation from Latin America and Eastern Europe especially. Many of the poems address massive human rights violations from a personal standpoint, lots of requiems and impending death.