"The purpose of 'The sea and the honeycomb' is to provide examples of what has been done so far in Europe, America, and Asia with the poem of three or four lines. Epigrams have not been included. This book is interested in another sort of poem which tries, in the words of Juan Ramon Jiménez, to arrive at the greatest possible richness by the simplest possible means. The book contains English language poems, as well as poems translated from ancient and modern languages ... Significantly enlarged from the original Sixties Press publication, the book also includes foreign language texts, and an introductory essay by Robert Bly"--From back cover.