The Vintage book of contemporary world poetry / edited, and with an introduction by J.D. McClatchy.
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.
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New York :
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1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Day of Sea
- Beach
- Muse
- Small Square
- I Feel the Dead
- Flute / Sophia De Mello Breyner
- Penniless Lovers
- Music
- Silence
- Fable
- from White on White / Eugenio De Andrade
- Before I Could Call Myself Angel Gonzalez
- City
- Yesterday
- Future
- Inventory of Places Propitious for Love
- Whatever You Want
- Diatribe Against the Dead / Angel Gonzalez
- Tree, the Lamp
- Words of Evening
- Summer Again
- De Natura Rerum
- All, the Nothing
- Stone
- Well
- Top of the World / Yves Bonnefoy
- Distances
- These wood-shadows
- Right at the end of night
- Dawn
- Swifts
- Weight of Stones
- I rise with an Effort
- Glimpses / Philippe Jaccottet
- Mineral Kingdom
- My Body
- Waiting with lowered voice
- from Songs of Rescue / Jacques Dupin
- Fingers probe
- In October
- Every morning
- Octet Before Winter / Claire Malroux
- Prayer to My Mother
- Southern Dawn
- Civil Song
- Lines from the Testament
- Part of a Letter to the Codignola Boy
- Day of My Death / Pier Paolo Pasolini
- How Long
- Distance
- Epiphany
- If It Were Not
- Behold the Thin Green
- Campea / Andrea Zanzotto
- But first one must free oneself
- 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 / Patrizia Cavalli
- Johnson Brothers Ltd.
- Ulumbo, a Cat
- Breughel's Winter
- Natzweiler
- Thanks to the Things / Rutger Kopland
- Coastline
- Old Champagne Glass
- Valediction
- To My Father
- Courtyard
- City
- Party / Eddy Van Vliet
- China Observed Through Greek Rain in Turkish Coffee
- No Matter Where We Go
- Our Love Is Like Byzantium
- Streets
- Sailing / Henrik Nordbrandt
- After a Death
- Sketch in October
- Scattered Congregation
- Below Freezing / Tomas Transtromer
- from The Short Year
- from Darkness / Paavo Haavikko
- Potato Thief
- from The Dance Floor on the Mountain
- from Invitation to the Dance / Pentti Saarikoski
- On winter nights
- In the damp places
- These are lilacs
- Temporary City / Nijole Miliauskaite
- For the Grave of a Peace-Loving Man
- Middle-Class Blues
- Song for Those Who Know
- At Thirty-three
- Holiday
- Short History of the Bourgeoisie
- Vanished Work
- Poison / Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Paris
- Psalm
- Invocation of the Great Bear
- Songs from an Island
- Aria I
- Kind of Loss / Ingeborg Bachmann
- Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
- Incantation
- My Faithful Mother Tongue
- Bypassing Rue Descartes / Czeslaw Milosz
- Who Is a Poet
- Draft of a Modern Love Poem
- Among Many Tasks
- Homework Assignment on the Subject of Angels / Tadeusz Rozewicz
- Unexpected Meeting
- Women of Rubens
- Pieta
- Theater Impressions
- Under a Certain Little Star
- Reality Demands
- End and the Beginning / Wislawa Szymborska
- To Marcus Aurelius
- Hen
- Drawer
- Our Fear
- Elegy of Fortinbras
- Remembering My Father
- Mr. Cogito Meditates on Suffering
- What Mr. Cogito Thinks About Hell / Zbigniew Herbert
- Betrayal
- At Daybreak
- Electric Elegy
- Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America
- When Death Came / Adam Zagajewski
- Sincerity
- Between
- Like One Who
- Four-Light Window / Agnes Nemes Nagy
- My Masters
- Thin, Black Band
- Postponed Nightmare
- We Were Good, Good and Obedient
- Everyday History / Sandor Csoori
- 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 / Gyorgy Petri
- Man Cursing the Sea
- Fly
- On the Origin of the Contrary
- Vanishing Lung Syndrome
- Immanuel Kant
- Interferon / Miroslav Holub
- In the Ashtray
- Pig
- Heaven's Ring
- Burning Shewolf / Vasko Popa
- Dogs Gambol
- Nobody
- Man from the Death Institute
- Jesus
- Antipsalm
- Little Picture Catalogue
- Laocoon/Serpent / Novica Tadic
- Death Fugue
- I am the first
- Tenebrae
- Language Mesh
- Matiere de Bretagne
- Alchemical
- Thread suns
- In Prague
- When you lie
- Little night
- All those sleep shapes / Paul Celan
- With a Green Scarf
- Start
- Precautions
- Fresco
- Perseverance
- Map
- Fountains in the Sea
- Tear / Marin Sorescu
- Miniature
- Penelope's Despair
- End of Dodona II
- Marpessa's Choice
- Requiem on Poros
- Distant / Yannis Ritsos
- Aegean Melancholy
- from The Axion Esti
- Origin of Landscape or the End of Mercy / Odysseus Elytis
- Angina Pectoris
- Cucumber
- Things I Didn't Know I Loved / Nazim Hikmet
- I Am Goya
- Someone Is Beating a Woman
- Call of the Lake
- Old Song
- Chorus of Nymphs
- Two Poems / Andrei Voznesensky
- Babii Yar
- Heirs of Stalin
- Hand-Rolled Cigarettes
- Siberian Wooing / Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- Six Years Later
- I Sit by the Window
- October Tune
- Belfast Tune
- Roman Elegies / Joseph Brodsky
- What That Street Is Called
- Remembrance of Strange Hospitality
- Elegy on an X-ray Photo of My Skull
- Elegies on the Cardinal Points / Elena Shvarts
- Passage
- Tree of Fire
- Song of a Man in the Dark
- Elegy for the Time at Hand / Adonis
- Identity Card
- On Whishes
- Victim Number 48
- Steps in the Night
- We Walk Towards a Land
- Sirhan Drinks His Coffee in the Cafeteria
- Words
- Guests on the Sea / Mahmoud Darwish
- Letter
- Quick and Bitter
- Man in His Life
- Anniversaries of War
- Four Resurrections in the Valley of the Ghosts
- Little Ruth
- We Have Done Our Duty / Yehuda Amichai
- Autobiography
- Footprints
- Conversation
- Picture Postcard from Our Youth
- Wall Calendar / Dan Pagis
- Trying Again
- Surely You Remember
- Dress of Fire
- Sound of Birds at Noon
- You Can't Kill a Baby Twice
- Hovering at a Low Altitude / Dahlia Ravikovitch
- Pearls
- I Am Alone
- Before Night Comes
- Song of the Initiate / Leopold Sedar Senghor
- At the Gates
- This Earth, My Brother
- First Circle
- They Shall Know
- So the World Changes / Kofi Awoonor
- Elegy of the Wind
- Come Thunder
- Elegy for Alto / Christopher Okigbo
- Hunchback of Dugbe
- Funeral Sermon, Soweto / Wole Soyinka
- from Carousels of the Sea
- Seven Sides and Seven Syllables / Edouard Maunick
- There Was a Time When the Only Worth
- They Hanged Him, I Said Dismissively
- Robben Island Sequence
- At Night
- Endurance / Dennis Brutus
- Breyten Prays for Himself
- Asylum
- Firewing
- Dreams Are Also Wounds
- Out There
- There Is Life
- Lullaby / Breyten Breytenbach
- Don't Ask Me for That Love Again
- Prison Evening
- Fragrant Hands
- Vista
- So Bring the Order for My Execution
- You Tell Us What to Do / Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- Character
- Border
- At the Back of Progress ...
- Eve Oh Eve
- Another Life / Taslima Nasrin
- Elements of Composition
- In the Zoo
- Pleasure
- At Forty
- Some People / A.K. Ramanujan
- Summer Poem
- Main Temple Street, Puri
- Taste for Tomorrow
- Sanskrit
- Ash
- Monsoon Day Fable / Jayanta Mahapatra
- Jungle Night
- This Land's No Joy
- Model Children of the Regime
- Travel with Grief
- Goodbye to Joy
- from Sundry Notes / Nguyen Chi Thien
- Answer
- August Sleepwalker
- Accomplices
- Collection
- Evening Scene
- Discovery / Bei Dao
- Missing You
- Assembly Line
- Singing Flower
- Bits of Reminiscence
- Maple Leaf
- Gifts
- Fairy Tales / Shu Ting
- Generation
- Discovery
- Ark.
- Forever Parted: Graveyard / Gu Cheng
- Flower-Patterned Snake
- Beside a Chrysanthemum
- Winter Sky
- Peony Afternoon
- Sneeze
- If I Became a Stone
- Untitled / So Chong-Ju
- Every Morning After Killing Thousands of Angels
- My Imperialism
- Human House / Ryuichi Tamura
- Wind Invites Wind
- Poetry Calendar
- Odyssey or "On Absence"
- Universe of the Rose / Chimako Tada
- Sadness
- Concerning a Girl
- Request
- Family Portrait
- River
- Stone and Light / Shuntaro Tanikawa
- Key of Water
- Along Galeana Street
- Small Variation
- I Speak of the City / Octavio Paz
- Stone at the Bottom / Manuel Ulacia
- Washerwoman
- from The Beginning / Veronica Volkow
- Mosquito Kingdom
- Vision from the Blue Window
- Tahirassawichi in Washington / Ernesto Cardenal
- Savoir Faire
- Nocturnal Visits
- From the Bridge
- Documentary
- I Am Root / Claribel Alegria
- from Vertical Poetry
- from Third Vertical Poetry
- from Fifth Vertical Poetry
- from Sixth Vertical Poetry
- from Seventh Vertical Poetry
- from Ninth Vertical Poetry
- from Tenth Vertical Poetry
- from Eleventh Vertical Poetry / Roberto Juarroz
- from Twenty Love Poems
- Walking Around
- We Are Many
- Too Many Names
- from The Heights of Macchu Picchu
- Poet's Obligation
- Poetry
- Ode to the Cat
- Past / Pablo Neruda
- Pilgrim
- Tablets
- Man
- Poems of the Pope / Nicanor Parra
- Dark Room
- Cemetery in Punta Arenas
- Six Poems of Loneliness
- Torture Chamber
- Of All Despondencies
- Favorite Little Shrine
- Goodnight, Achilles / Enrique Lihn
- Seven-Sided Poem
- Souvenir of the Ancient World
- Motionless Faces
- Residue
- Family Portrait / Carlos Drummond De Andrade
- Daily Space
- End of the World
- Landscape of the Capibaribe River
- Knife All Blade
- Education by Stone
- Emptiness of Man / Joao Cabral De Melo Neto
- Prayer for the End of the Century
- Landscapes
- Self-Portrait of the Other
- Man on the Edge
- Discourse on Method
- Daily Habits
- Fountain, a House of Stone / Heberto Padilla
- Love Song for Difficult Times
- Kaleidoscope
- Invocation / Maria Elena Cruz Varela
- Different Horizon
- Bucolic
- On the Islands of All Winds
- In Memory of a Black Union Leader
- In Order to Speak
- Lagoonal Calendar / Aime Cesaire
- Citadel
- Colombe / Kamau Brathwaite
- Road of the Dread
- Always Homing Now Soul Toward Light.