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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Phonetic Equivalents | |
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| Map: the World Ca. 1913 | |
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| Map: the World Today, a Western View | |
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| Map: the World Today, an Eastern View | |
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| The Modern World: Self and Other in Global Context | |
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| Time Line | |
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| The Night Chant (Navajo, ca. 1897-1902) | |
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| Prayer to Thunder | |
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| Finishing Song | |
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| Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | |
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| From "Dora" (German) | |
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| Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) | |
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| From Gitanjali (Bengali) | |
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| [The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day] | |
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| [Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high] | |
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| [Deliverance is not for me in renunciation] | |
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| From The Crescent Moon (Bengali) | |
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| On the Seashore | |
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| From The Gardener (Bengali) | |
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| [At midnight the would-be ascetic announced] | |
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| [Sudas, the gardener, plucked from his tank ...] | |
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| From Sonar Tari (Bengali) | |
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| I Won't Let You Go | |
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| The Golden Boat | |
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| From Kalpana (Bengali) | |
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| A Stressful Time | |
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| Zuni Ritual Poetry (Zuni) | |
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| From A Prayer at the Winter Solstice | |
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| From The Scalp Dance | |
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| From Shalako | |
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| From Sayatasha's Night Chant | |
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| House Blessing | |
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| Dismissal of the Koyemshi | |
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| Inuit Songs | |
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| Orpingalik (flourished 1923) | |
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| My Breath (Inuit-Inupiaq) | |
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| Uvlunuaq (flourished 1923) | |
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| Song of a Mother (Inuit-Inupiaq) | |
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| Netsit (flourished 1923) | |
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| Dead Man's Song (Inuit-Inupiaq) | |
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| Uvavnuk (died before 1921) | |
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| The Great Sea (Inuit-Inupiaq) | |
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| Kibkarjuk (flourished 1922) | |
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| Song of the Rejected Woman (Inuit-Inupiaq) | |
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| Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) | |
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| In Praise of Shadows (Japanese) | |
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| T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) | |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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| The Waste Land | |
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| The Burial of the Dead | |
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| A Game of Chess | |
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| The Fire Sermon | |
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| Death by Water | |
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| What the Thunder Said | |
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| From Four Quartets | |
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| Little Gidding | |
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| Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) | |
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| Requiem (Russian) | |
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| Dada-Surrealist Poetry: a Selection | |
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| Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) | |
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| From Dada Manifesto 1918 (French) | |
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| Dada Disgust | |
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| Proclamation Without Pretension (French) | |
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| Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) | |
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| Anna Blume (German) | |
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| Paul Eluard (1895-1952) | |
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| Woman in Love (French) | |
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| To Be Caught in One's Own Trap (French) | |
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| [Nature was caught in the nets of your life] (French) | |
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| [She is always unwilling to understand, to listen] (French) | |
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| [Unknown, she was my favorite shape] (French) | |
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| The Mirror of a Moment (French) | |
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| Andre Breton (1896-1966) | |
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| Free Union (French) | |
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| Vigilance (French) | |
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| Aime Cesaire (born 1913) | |
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| Do Not Have Pity (French) | |
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| Sun Serpent (French) | |
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| Day and Night (French) | |
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| Joyce Mansour (1928-1987) | |
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| [I saw you through my closed eye] (French) | |
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| [I opened your head] (French) | |
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| [Men's vices] (French) | |
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| [Empty black haunted house] (French) | |
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| Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938) | |
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| [Poems] (Spanish) | |
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| Squares and Angles | |
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| You Want Me White | |
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| Little-Bitty Man | |
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| Ancestral Burden | |
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| The World of Seven Wells | |
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| Portrait of Garcia Lorca | |
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| Departure | |
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| William Faulkner (1897-1962) | |
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| From Go Down, Moses | |
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| The Bear | |
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| Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) | |
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| The Good Woman of Setzuan (German) | |
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| Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) | |
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| Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (Spanish) | |
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| From Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias | |
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| Tawfiq Al-Hakim (1898-1989) | |
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| The Sultan's Dilemma (Arabic) | |
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| Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) | |
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| Snow Country (Japanese) | |
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| Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1989) | |
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| The Garden of Forking Paths (Spanish) | |
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| Andrew Peynetsa (1904?-1976) | |
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| The Boy and the Deer (Zuni) | |
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| Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) | |
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| [Poems] (Spanish) | |
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| Tonight I Can Write ... | |
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| Walking Around | |
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| I'm Explaining a Few Things | |
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| Canto General | |
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| From The Heights of Macchu Picchu | |
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| Ode to the Tomato | |
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| Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) | |
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| Endgame (French) | |
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| Birago Diop (1906-1992) | |
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| The Bone (French) | |
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| Mother Crocodile (French) | |
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| Leopold Sedar Senghor (born 1906) | |
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| [Poems] (French) | |
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| Letter to a Poet | |
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| Night in Sine | |
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| Black Woman | |
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| Prayer to the Masks | |
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| Letter to a Prisoner | |
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| The Kaya-Magan | |
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| To New York | |
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| Songs for Signare | |
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| Elegy of the Circumcised | |
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| Richard Wright (1908-1960) | |
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| The Man Who Was Almost a Man | |
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| Naguib Mahfouz (born 1911) | |
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| Zaabalawi (Arabic) | |
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| Aime Cesaire (born 1913) | |
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| Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (French) | |
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| Albert Camus (1913-1960) | |
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| The Guest (French) | |
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| Kojima Nobuo (born 1915) | |
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| The American School (Japanese) | |
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| Bernard Dadie (born 1916) | |
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| The Mirror of Dearth (French) | |
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| The Black Cloth (French) | |
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| The Hunter and the Boa (French) | |
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| Juan Rulfo (1918-1986) | |
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| Pedro Paramo (Spanish) | |
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| Alexander Solzhenitsyn (born 1918) | |
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| Matryona's Home (Russian) | |
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| Guinea Woman | |
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| "I Shall Light a Candle of Understanding in Thine Heart ..." | |
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| Heartease II | |
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| The Pictures of My New Day | |
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| Heartease New England 1987 | |
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| Mother the Great Stones Got to Move | |
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| Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948) | |
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| Yellow Woman | |
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| A Note on Translation | |
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| Permissions Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |