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