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 Bangladesh--Taslima NasrinChile--Pablo NerudaChina--Bei Dao Shu TingEl Salvador--Claribel AlegriaFrance--Yves BonnefoyGreece--Odysseus Elytis Yannis RitsosIndia--A.K. RamanujanIsrael--Yehuda AmichaiJapan--Shuntaro TanikawaMexico--Octavio PazNicaragua--Ernesto CardenalNigeria--Wole SoyinkaNorway--Tomas TranstromerPalestine--Mahmoud DarwishPoland--Zbigniew Herbert Czeslaw MiloszRussia--Joseph Brodsky Yevgeny YevtushenkoSenegal--Leopold Sedar SenghorSouth Africa--Breyten BreytenbachSt. Lucia West Indies--Derek Walcott