John Ciardi published his first poem in Poetry magazine in 1939. The forty year since have been f...

A Grossery of Limericks

Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante A...

From twenty books of verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love wr...

'Thirty-five imaginative and humorous poems for an adult and a child to read aloud together. . . ...

In The Purgatorio, Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his sufferin...

Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the ...

Poems consider the past, parenthood, mortality, success, misunderstanding, sleep, love, and travel.

The authoritative translations of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso-together in one v...

Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the ...

An excellent introduction to the man and his thoughts on the painstaking craftsmanship involved i...

In The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny wit...