| The Caribbean | |
| Antigua | |
| Girl | |
| Barbados | |
| A Wedding in Spring | |
| To Da-Duh, in Memoriam | |
| Red Rising; Xango | |
| Dominica | |
| The Day They Burned the Books | |
| Guadaloupe | |
| From The Bridge of Beyond | |
| Guyana | |
| Wherever I Hang; Tropical Death | |
| Jamaica | |
| If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire | |
| The Mulatta and the Minotaur; Lullaby for Jean Rhys; Nanny; For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) | |
| Martinique | |
| Aimé Césaire, from Return to My Native Land | |
| The Gift | |
| Sea Grapes; The Swamp; The Castaway | |
| Trinidad | |
| From The Mystic Masseur | |
| From The Dragon Can''t Dance | |
| Latin America | |
| Argentina | |
| The Circular Ruins | |
| Continuity of Parks | |
| The Censors | |
| Brazil | |
| The Third Bank of the River | |
| The Crime of the Mathematics Professor | |
| Two Concrete Poems | |
| Chile | |
| Heights of Macchu Picchu | |
| Litany of the Little Bourgeois; Mummies; Test; I Take Back Everything I''ve Said | |
| Colombia | |
| Balthazar''s Marvelous Afternoon | |
| Cuba | |
| Ballad of the Two Grandfathers; The Grandfather | |
| Like the Night | |
| José Lezama Lima from Paradiso | |
| The Wounded | |
| Guatemala | |
| Angel Face | |
| Mexico | |
| San Ildefonso Nocturne | |
| Tell Them Not to Kill Me! Carlos Fuentes, The Doll Queen | |
| Peru | |
| From The War at the End of the World | |
| Puerto Rico | |
| The Youngest Doll | |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Angola | |
| Night; Kinaxixi; African Poetry; Western Civilizations | |
| Botswana | |
| The Collector of Treasures | |
| Ghana | |
| Something to Talk About on the Way to the Funeral | |
| Kenya | |
| Minutes of Glory | |
| Malawi | |
| Messages; On His Royal Blindness Paramount Chief Kwangala; When This Carnival Finally Closes | |
| Nigeria | |
| Piano and Drums; You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed; Once upon a Time | |
| The Madman | |
| The Strong Breed | |
| Senegal | |
| Black Woman; Totem; New York; You Held the Black Face for Khalam; Be Not Amazed; In What Tempestuous Night; Prayer to Masks; Senegal; Visit; Luxembourg 1939 | |
| Tribal Scars or The Voltaique | |
| South Africa | |
| Comrades | |
| Death of a Son | |
| Uganda | |
| My Husband''s Tongue Is Bitter; What Is Africa to Me? | |
| The Middle East | |
| Algeria | |
| There Is No Exile | |
| Egypt | |
| Zaabalawi | |
| She Has No Place in Paradise | |
| Iran | |
| The Stray Dog | |
| Window; Friday | |
| Iraq | |
| Rain Song; Song in August | |
| Israel | |
| At the Outset of the Day | |
| The Gypsy | |
| The Dress; The Sound of Birds at Noon; Pride; From Day to Night; Distant Land | |
| Kuwait | |
| A New Definition of the Third World; A Thousand Times More Beautiful; A Covenant; Sojourn Forever; Free Harbour; You Alone | |
| Lebanon | |
| A Spaceship of Tenderness to the Moon | |
| Our Daily Bread | |
| Palestine | |
| Death of Bed Number 12 | |
| Sudan | |
| The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid | |
| Turkey | |
| On Living; The Strangest Creature on Earth; Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison; Awakening; Evening Walk | |
| South Asia | |
| India | |
| The Master Carpenter | |
| Her Dream; Household Fires | |
| Do Something, Brother | |
| Traitor; The Knot | |
| Process of Creation; The Weed | |
| Minority Poem; In India | |
| Breast-Giver | |
| Preparations of War; Archaeological Find | |
| Love Poem for a Wife 1; Small-scale Reflections on a Great House | |
| Process of Change; Half-an- Hour''s Argument | |
| On Reading a Love Poem | |
| The City, Evening, and an Old Man: Me | |
| Bread | |
| The Color of Nothingness | |
| The Farewell Party | |
| A Rat and a Sparrow | |
| A Desire in Her Bangles | |
| Nepal | |
| The Half-Closed Eyes of the Buddha and the Slowly Setting Sun | |
| Pakistan | |
| Purvai—The Easterly Wind | |
| The Bird | |
| Khalida | |
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