Joyful Noise

A selection of poems and songs that trace America's diverse spiritual traditions. This comprehensive survey includes Native American songs, traditional Protestant hymns, nineteenth-century transcendental verse, and selections from major modern and contemporary authors, such as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Agha Shahid Ali, Mark Doty, Jane Hirshfield, and Denise Duhamel.