20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own
Verse to reach for on a lazy evening—or a difficult day: The poetry no reader's library should be without.
By Carmela Ciuraru
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The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart: Poems
By Deborah Digges
72 pages;
Knopf
This collection is worth owning for the powerful title poem alone ("In my heart and its rooms is dark and windy"), which seems to foreshadow her 2009 suicide.
— Carmela Ciuraru
Published 03/18/2011