John Anthony Ciardi ( ; ] ; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an Italian-American poet, translator, and etymologist.
 While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's "Divine Comedy", wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the "Saturday Review" as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont.
 In 1959, Ciardi published a book on how to read, write, and teach poetry, "How Does a Poem Mean?"
, which has proven to be among the most-used books of its kind.
 At the peak of his popularity in the early 1960s, Ciardi also had a network television program on CBS, "Accent".
 Ciardi's impact on poetry is perhaps best measured through the younger poets whom he influenced as a teacher and as editor of the "Saturday Review".
Hilary Tham (August 20, 1946 – June 24, 2005), also known as Hilary Tham Goldberg, was a Malaysian-born American poet.
 Tham studied English literature in Malaysia before marrying an American Peace Corps worker.
 She then converted to Judaism and immigrated to the U.S. Tham published many books of poetry and was editor-in-chief for the nonprofit poetry publishing house, Word Works.
Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist.
 He is the author of "Spoon River Anthology", "The New Star Chamber and Other Essays", "Songs and Satires", "The Great Valley", "The Serpent in the Wilderness" "An Obscure Tale", "The Spleen", "Mark Twain: A Portrait", "Lincoln: The Man", and "Illinois Poems".
 In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
Qayyum Nazar (1914 - 1989), was a prominent Urdu Language poet from Pakistan.
 Along with fellow Urdu poets Meeraji and Noon Meem Rashid, Nazar was a member of the Pakistani literary circle, Halqa-e Arbab-e Zauq.
 Nazar was born in Lahore in British Raj, India.
 He worked as a professor at the Government College, Lahore.
 He wrote many books of Urdu poetry, specializing in classical forms of poetry.
 His first published ghazal was printed in 1933.
 He represented the new wave of Urdu ghazals and was impressed by many classic Urdu poets, especially two other masters of the ghazal, Mir Taqi Mir, an 18th-century poet considered the founder of Urdu poetry, and Fani Badayuni, an earlier 20th-century Urdu poet.
Sheldon Dick (1906–1950) was an American publisher, literary agent, photographer, and filmmaker.
 He was a member of a wealthy and well-connected industrialist family, and was able to support himself while funding a series of literary and artistic endeavors.
 He published a book by poet Edgar Lee Masters, and made a documentary about mining that has been of interest to scholars.
 Dick is best known for the photographs he took on behalf of the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, and for the violent circumstances of his death.
Vess Quinlan is an American Cowboy Poet, who is widely considered to be one of the most respected poets of his genre.
 Quinlan's work has been published in many books and magazines, as well as on various online poetry databases.
 His writing is based on his real life experiences as a rancher, and really gives his poetry a lifelike feel.
Sayed Gouda (born 1968 in Cairo) is an Egyptian poet and novelist.
 He majored in the Chinese language.
 Sayed Gouda won a first prize of poetry in 1990 before he migrated to Hong Kong in 1992.
 He has twelve books in total, four of which are poetry in the Arabic language, and two novels in the English called "Once Upon a Time in Cairo'’ and ‘'Closed Gate" and six books of poetry in translation.
 He has translated hundreds of poems from and into Arabic, Chinese, and English.
 His works and translations have appeared in Arabic, English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Macedonian, Uzbek, Thai, and Mongolian.
 Currently he is the editor of a literary website called "Nadwah" in five languages: Arabic, Chinese,English, French, and German.
 Sayed Gouda has organized a monthly literary salon in Hong Kong since April 2004.
 Most of his translations have already been published in several periodicals in Egypt, China, and Hong Kong.
 He has been invited to participate in many international poetry festivals around the world like Man Hong Kong Literary Festival in Hong Kong (2002–2007), International Poetry Festival of Cairo in Egypt (2007, 2009), Qinghai International Poetry Festival in China (2007, 2011, & 2013), Struga Poetry Nights in Macedonina (2009), Mid-Autumn Poetry Festival in Beijing and Anhui (2014).
Farhat Abbas Shah (فرحت عباس شاہ, born 15 November 1964, Jhang, Punjab, Pakistan) is a well known Urdu poet, previously a famous Pakistani Ninja .
Farhat Abbas Shah is born in JHANG city of Punjab Pakistan.He got his early education from Jhang and ultimately shifted to Lahore.
 He got master in Philosophy and Msc in psychology.
 He has revolutionised Urdu poetry by his classical aptitude towards URDU Ghazal.
"Udasi" is the main influence on his poetry but this element of "UDASI" is not pessimistic it is in the positive way.He has written many books more than 68 which is one of the remarkable contribution towards Urdu literature.
 Farhat Abbas shah started his poetry in early age when he was in school and became very famous poet.
 Farhat Abbas Shah has variation in his personality.His every layer is not only one step ahead to self-development but he paved the way for others as well.He truckled down the conventional attitude of poetry and introduced his new style to Urdu ghazal.
 He has been criticised by many contemporaries but he did not give up his struggle and finally got recognised in all over the world.
 Farhat Abbas Shah is working for different TV channels and radio now a days.
 He is founder of FARZ Foundation which is working for poor people in Pakistan on the bases of Micro finance.
Al Young (born May 31, 1939) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor.
 On May 15, 2005, he was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
 In appointing Young as Poet Laureate, the Governor praised him: "He is an educator and a man with a passion for the Arts.
 His remarkable talent and sense of mission to bring poetry into the lives of Californians is an inspiration."
 Muriel Johnson, Director of the California Arts Council declared: "Like jazz, Al Young is an original American voice."
 Young’s many books include novels, collections of poetry, essays, and memoirs.
 His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including "Paris Review", "Ploughshares", "Essence", "The New York Times", "Chicago Review", "Seattle Review", "Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature", "Chelsea", "Rolling Stone", "Gathering of the Tribes," and in anthologies including the "Norton Anthology of African American Literature," and the "Oxford Anthology of African American Literature."
Alexandr Mikhailovych Kondratov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Кондра́тов ; October 3, 1937, Smolensk - April 16, 1993, St.Petersburg) was a Russian linguist, biologist, journalist and poet.
 He wrote many books on subjects as various as ancient and modern languages, history, mathematics, paleontology, geology, cryptozoology, Atlantis, and he also wrote poetry.
 He was the first Russian to write a monography about dinosaurs purportedly surviving into modern times.

Question: How many books of poetry did the poet, who was published by Sheldon Dick, write?
Answer: twenty-one