A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets collection of poetic tributes to beer from around the world and through ages. From the ancient "Hymn to Ninkasi" (the Sumerian goddess of beer) to eighth-century Chinese poet Li Bai's "Bring in the Ale" to Robert Graves's "Strong Beer"--the poems collected here attest to humankind's long attraction to the foamy and intoxicating product of malted hops. A surprising variety of poets have penned tributes to the brew; their tantalizing poems include Robert Burns's "John Barleycorn," Edgar Allen Poe's "Lines on Ale," Frank O'Hara's "Beer for Breakfast," Sylvia Plath's "The Beer Tastes Good," Muriel Rukeyser's "Beer and Bacon," and Tom Waits's "Warm Beer and Cold Women." Whether pulling up to the bar in Keats's "Mermaid Tavern" or Carl Sandburg's "Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio," readers of this enticing collection are invited to follow a slight variation of Baudelaire's famed advice: "Get drunk Stay drunk On beer, virtue, poetry, whatever "