The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry - J.d. Mcclatchy - Books - Vintage - 9780679741152 - June 25, 1996
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry 1st edition

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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 Nasrin
Chile--Pablo Neruda
China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting
El Salvador--Claribel Alegria
France--Yves Bonnefoy
Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos
India--A. K. Ramanujan
Israel--Yehuda Amichai
Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa
Mexico--Octavio Paz
Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal
Nigeria--Wole Soyinka
Norway--Tomas Transtromer
Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish
Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz
Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor
South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach
St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 25, 1996
ISBN13 9780679741152
Publishers Vintage
Pages 688
Dimensions 133 × 203 × 33 mm   ·   539 g
Language English  

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