num_pages: 158
description: Collected by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, this unique volume brings together works from poets jilted in the sixteenth century to those struggling with heartache today -- including William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and Louise Gluck. The Handbook of Heartbreak is a must for anyone who has ever loved -- and lost.
language: English
title: The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow
titlecomplete: The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 81
publisher: William Morrow