The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes 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. Among the countries and writers represented are:
BangladeshTaslima Nasrin
ChilePablo Neruda
ChinaBei Dao, Shu Ting
El SalvadorClaribel Alegria
FranceYves Bonnefoy
GreeceOdysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos
IndiaA.K. Ramanujan
IsraelYehuda Amichai
JapanShuntaro Tanikawa
MexicoOctavio Paz
NicaraguaErnesto Cardenal
NigeriaWole Soyinka
NorwayTomas Transtromer
PalestineMahmoud Darwish
PolandZbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz
RussiaJoseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko
SenegalLeopold Sedar Senghor
South AfricaBreyten Breytenbach
St. Lucia, West IndiesDerek Walcott
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BangladeshTaslima Nasrin
ChilePablo Neruda
ChinaBei Dao, Shu Ting
El SalvadorClaribel Alegria
FranceYves Bonnefoy
GreeceOdysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos
IndiaA.K. Ramanujan
IsraelYehuda Amichai
JapanShuntaro Tanikawa
MexicoOctavio Paz
NicaraguaErnesto Cardenal
NigeriaWole Soyinka
NorwayTomas Transtromer
PalestineMahmoud Darwish
PolandZbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz
RussiaJoseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko
SenegalLeopold Sedar Senghor
South AfricaBreyten Breytenbach
St. Lucia, West IndiesDerek Walcott
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes 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. Among the countries and writers represented are:
BangladeshTaslima Nasrin
ChilePablo Neruda
ChinaBei Dao, Shu Ting
El SalvadorClaribel Alegria
FranceYves Bonnefoy
GreeceOdysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos
IndiaA.K. Ramanujan
IsraelYehuda Amichai
JapanShuntaro Tanikawa
MexicoOctavio Paz
NicaraguaErnesto Cardenal
NigeriaWole Soyinka
NorwayTomas Transtromer
PalestineMahmoud Darwish
PolandZbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz
RussiaJoseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko
SenegalLeopold Sedar Senghor
South AfricaBreyten Breytenbach
St. Lucia, West IndiesDerek Walcott
BangladeshTaslima Nasrin
ChilePablo Neruda
ChinaBei Dao, Shu Ting
El SalvadorClaribel Alegria
FranceYves Bonnefoy
GreeceOdysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos
IndiaA.K. Ramanujan
IsraelYehuda Amichai
JapanShuntaro Tanikawa
MexicoOctavio Paz
NicaraguaErnesto Cardenal
NigeriaWole Soyinka
NorwayTomas Transtromer
PalestineMahmoud Darwish
PolandZbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz
RussiaJoseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko
SenegalLeopold Sedar Senghor
South AfricaBreyten Breytenbach
St. Lucia, West IndiesDerek Walcott
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780679741152 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 06/25/1996 |
Pages: | 688 |
Sales rank: | 473,053 |
Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 7.98(h) x 1.43(d) |
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