Anthologist Vecchione has assembled a collection of poems exploring the struggle between faith and doubt in many places--from religion, to politics and war, to love, to the act of writing itself.

God says yes to me / Kaylin Haught -- My grandfather's hat / Nicholas Gardner -- Girl who loved the sky / Anita Endrezze -- Not / Joy Castro -- Centaur / May Swenson -- Faith / Al Young -- School for visionaries / Charles Simic -- Dog who walked on water -- Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts -- Echoes / John Ciardi -- Death of Santa Claus / Charles Harper Webb -- "For a while we lived with people," / Rumi -- "There's a strange frenzy in my head," / Rumi -- Faithful / Ronald Wallace -- Doubt / Sara Holbrook -- Doubt / Sir Lewis Morris -- Son of the Commandment / Robert Sward -- Churchgoing / Marilyn Nelson -- "My worthiness is all my doubt" / Emily Dickinson -- Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen -- Long drop to black water / Judy Jordan -- Bare-root / Stephen Meadows -- "Doubt thou the stars are fire" / William Shakespeare -- Song of Chang-gan: Story of young love / Li Po -- What should I say / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Bible / Joseph Stroud -- Doubt / Helen Hunt Jackson -- Girl at five / Anna Paganelli -- Dirty hand / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Of the terrible doubt of appearances / Walt Whitman -- No doubt, marital -- Last apple / Malka Heifetz Tussman -- You may forget but, Sappho -- "Every word is doubt" / Roberto Juarroz -- Doubt of future foes / Elizabeth I -- Watch God crumble / Akasha Gloria Hull -- Berries / William Heyen -- Dear neighbor God / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Place where we are right / Yehuda Amichai -- Praise song / Lucille Clifton -- Poetry / Pablo Neruda -- Finders keepers / Patrice Vecchione -- Waking / Theodore Roethke -- Advertisement / Wislawa Szymborska -- Hope, fear, and doubt / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- In those days / Saadi Youssef -- Love's doubt / John Milton Hay -- Direction of light / Linda Hogan -- Diamond dark / Marilyn Singer -- Atheist's prayer / Miguel de Unamuno -- "When I was five" / Gary Young -- Waste / Kay Ryan -- Prayer to the new year / Fadwa Tuqan -- Let evening come / Jane Kenyon -- Biographical notes -- Permissions -- Index of authors.