Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry

Name: Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
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ISBN: 9780679741152

ISBN-10: 0679741151

ISBN-13: 9780679741152

Edition: 1996

Authors: J. D. McClatchy

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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…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/25/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.98" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 1.188

J. D. McClatchy is the author of four books of poems, two books of literary essays, & four opera libretti. He is the editor of "The Yale Review" & a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.