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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 | |