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Additional authors

1. McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018

Description

1. xxviii, 654 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

1. A contemporary poetry anthology for the global village, this volume contains masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney.

Alternative title

1. Book of contemporary world poetry
2. Contemporary world poetry
3. World poetry

Subject

1. Poetry
2. Translations
3. Poetry, Modern > 20th century > Translations into English

Genre/Form

1. Poetry
2. Translations
3. Translations.

Contents

1. On the Origin of the Contrary -- Vanishing Lung Syndrome -- Immanuel Kant -- Interferon -- Vasko Popa -- In the Ashtray -- Pig -- Heaven's Ring -- Burning Shewolf -- Novica Tadic -- Dogs Gambol -- Nobody -- Man from the Death Institute -- Je.
2. Sophia De Mello Breyner -- Day of Sea -- Beach -- Muse -- The Small Square -- I Feel the Dead -- The Flute -- Eugenio De Andrade -- Penniless Lovers -- Music -- Silence -- Fable -- from White on White -- Angel Gonzalez -- Before I Could Call Myself Angel Gonzalez -- City -- Yesterday -- The Future -- Inventory of Places Propitious for Love -- Whatever You Want -- Diatribe Against the Dead -- Yves Bonnefoy -- The Tree, the Lamp -- The Words of Evening -- Summer Again -- De Natura Rerum -- The All, the Nothing -- A Stone -- The Well -- The Top of the World -- Philippe Jaccottet -- Distances -- These wood-shadows -- Right at the end of night -- Dawn -- Swifts -- Weight of Stones -- I rise with an Effort -- Glimpses -- Jacques Dupin -- Mineral Kingdom -- My Body -- Waiting with lowered voice -- from Songs of Rescue -- Claire Malroux -- Fingers probe -- In October -- Every morning -- Octet Before Winter -- Pier Paolo Pasolini -- Prayer to My Mother -- Southern Dawn -- Civil Song --^
3. Lines from the Testament -- Part of a Letter to the Codignola Boy -- The Day of My Death -- Andrea Zanzotto -- How Long -- Distance -- Epiphany -- If It Were Not -- Behold the Thin Green -- Campea -- Patrizia Cavalli -- But first one must free oneself -- The Moroccans with the carpets -- Now that time seems all mine -- To simulate the burning of the heart -- This time I won't permit the blue -- Far from kingdoms -- Ah, yes, to your misfortune -- Rutger Kopland -- Johnson Brothers Ltd. -- Ulumbo, a Cat -- Breughel's Winter -- Natzweiler -- Thanks to the Things -- Eddy Van Vliet -- The Coastline -- Old Champagne Glass -- Valediction -- To My Father -- The Courtyard -- The City -- Party -- Henrik Nordbrandt -- China Observed Through Greek Rain in Turkish Coffee -- No Matter Where We Go -- Our Love Is Like Byzantium -- Streets -- Sailing -- Tomas Transtromer -- After a Death -- Sketch in October -- The Scattered Congregation -- Below Freezing -- Paavo Haavikko -- from The Short Year --^
4. from Darkness -- Pentti Saarikoski -- Potato Thief -- from The Dance Floor on the Mountain -- from Invitation to the Dance -- Nijole Miliauskaite -- On winter nights -- In the damp places -- These are lilacs -- Temporary City -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- For the Grave of a Peace-Loving Man -- Middle-Class Blues -- Song for Those Who Know -- At Thirty-three -- The Holiday -- Short History of the Bourgeoisie -- Vanished Work -- The Poison -- Ingeborg Bachmann -- Paris -- Psalm -- Invocation of the Great Bear -- Songs from an Island -- Aria I -- A Kind of Loss -- Czeslaw Milosz -- A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto -- Incantation -- My Faithful Mother Tongue -- Bypassing Rue Descartes -- Tadeusz Rozewicz -- Who Is a Poet -- Draft of a Modern Love Poem -- Among Many Tasks -- Homework Assignment on the Subject of Angels -- Wislawa Szymborska -- Unexpected Meeting -- The Women of Rubens -- Pieta -- Theater Impressions -- Under a Certain Little Star -- Reality Demands --^
5. The End and the Beginning -- Zbigniew Herbert -- To Marcus Aurelius -- Hen -- Drawer -- Our Fear -- Elegy of Fortinbras -- Remembering My Father -- Mr. Cogito Meditates on Suffering -- What Mr. Cogito Thinks About Hell -- Adam Zagajewski -- Betrayal -- At Daybreak -- Electric Elegy -- Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America -- When Death Came -- Agnes Nemes Nagy -- Sincerity -- Between -- Like One Who -- A Four-Light Window -- Sandor Csoori -- My Masters -- A Thin, Black Band -- Postponed Nightmare -- We Were Good, Good and Obedient -- Everyday History -- Gyorgy Petri -- By an Unknown Poet from Eastern Europe, 1955 -- To S.V. -- Gratitude -- To Be Said Over and Over Again -- Night Song of the Personal Shadow -- Christmas 1956 -- Electra -- Morning Coffee -- Miroslav Holub -- Man Cursing the Sea -- The Fly.

Note

1. "A Vintage original."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain