In this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and
film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being mov
ed to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing 20 nationalities and ranging
in age from their early 20s to their late 80s, the majority are public figures n
ot prone to crying. Here they admit to breaking down when ambushed by great art,
often in words as powerful as the poems themselves.
