Words Brushed by Music: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Poetry Series

Over the past twenty—five years, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published thirty—one volumes of poetry, beginning in 1979 with John Hollander's Blue Wine and Other Poems. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of poetry exhibiting formal excellence and strong emotional appeal and to publish writers at all stages of their careers.

Words Brushed by Music gathers the best poems of the past twenty—five years, works that exhibit extraordinary wit, ...