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THE e~~. ANTHOLOGY !! INTERNATIONAL POETRY " "','/ " : I:;' 'if' EDITED BY ILYA KAMINSKY SUSAN HARRIS e~t;. AND WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS OF An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers k / CONTENTS Acknowledgments . XXXI Introduction by Ilya Kaminsky XXXIII RABINDRANATH TAGORE On My Birthday • I THE ECCO ANTHOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL POETRY. Copyright © 2010 by Words Without Borders. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States ofAmerica. No CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical The City • 2 Body, Remember • 3 articles and reviews. For information, address HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. Waiting for the Barbarians 3 Ithaka 5 HarperCollins books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information, please write: Special Markets Department, RUBEN DARia HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. The Wandering Song . 6 FIRST EDITION Designed by Mary Austin Speaker ELSE LASKER-SCHULER In the Evening • 8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. ISBN 978-0-06-158324-7 PAUL VALERY 10 11 12 13 14 DIXIRRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Angel Handed Me a Book 8 ~ ANTONIO MACHADO MOl SHE LEIB HALPERN I Never Sought the Glory . 9 Man, That Ape . 33 Last Night, as I Was Sleeping . 9 from Moral Proverbs and Folksongs 10 BLAISE CENDRARS Eyes . II White Suit . 34 RAINER MARIA RILKE GEORG TRAKL Autumn Day . 12 A Romance to Night . 35 Sometimes a Man Stands Up During Supper 12 Grodek . 35 The Eighth Duino Elegy . 13 Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes. . 15 GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI In Memoriam . 36 MAX JACOB Mystery ofthe Sky . 18 FERNANDO PESSOA Ifthey want me to be a mystic, fine. I'm a mystic. . 37 GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE The Little Car . 18 GABRIELA MISTRAL Hotel . 20 The Footprint . 38 Zone . 21 ANNA AKHMATOVA ALEXANDER BLOK A Land Not Mine . 40 [Night. Street. Lamp. Drugstore.] 26 Requiem . 41 Northern Elegies . 49 JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Our Own Land . 50 Oceans . 26 PIERRE REVERDY FRANZ KAFKA The Book . 51 On Parables . 27 Fruit Bowl . 5I Bottle . 5I UMBERTO SABA The Goat . 27 BORIS PASTERNAK Wild Vines . 52 VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV Sparrow Hills . 52 Incantation by Laughter . 28 For Anna Akhmatova . 53 A Wedding . 54 DINO CAMPANA Journey to Montevideo 29 NELLY SACHS Chorus ofthe Rescued . 55 GOTTFRIED BENN This Is Bad . 30 Chopin . 31 * * :II: CONTENTS k CONTENTS zi OSIP MANDELSTAM YANKEV GLATSHTEYN o Lord, help me to live through this night­ 56 Mozart . 76 Take from my palms, to soothe your heart . 56 A Song . 76 Leningrad . 57 Pear blossom and cherry blossom aim at me . 58 TRISTAN TZARA Through Kiev, through the streets ofthe monster . 58 Metal Coughdrops . 77 Your thin shoulders are for turning red under whips 59 The Stalin Epigram . 59 ANDRE BRETON Free Union . 78 MARINA TSVETAEVA from Poems for Moscow . 60 GERARDO DIEGO from Poems to Czechia . 6r Julio Campal . 80 from Poems to Czechia . 62 from Poems for Blok . 62 EUGENIO MONTALE from Poems for Akhmatova 63 Lemon Trees . 80 To Kiss a Forehead . 63 Xenia I . 82 To Conclude . 87 EDITH SODERGRAN In the Smoke . 87 On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems . 64 The Trees ofMy Childhood . 64 FEDERICO GARCiA LORCA The Little Mute Boy . 88 CESAR VALLEJO Farewell . 88 The Black Riders 65 Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias 89 The anger that breaks a man down into boys . 65 City That Does Not Sleep . 96 Masses . 66 Rundown Church 97 There are days, there comes to me an exuberant, political hunger . 67 Little Infinite Poem . 99 A man walks by with a baguette on his shoulder . 68 Song ofthe Cuban Blacks . 99 from The Nine Monsters . 69 Today I like life much less . 70 GIACOMO NOVENTA Black Stone Lying on a White Stone . 71 What's Beyond . 101 VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY BERTOLT BRECHT Past One O'Clock . 72 I, the Survivor . 101 from The Cloud in Trousers . 72 Motto . 101 JORGE DE LIMA HENRI MICHAUX Distribution of Poetry 74 from I Am Writing to You from a Far-offCountry 102 MITSUHARU KANEKO FRANCIS PONGE Opposition . 75 The Pleasures ofthe Door 1°4 * xii CONTENTS * CONTENTS xiii ~ JORGE LUIS BORGES Since I Was Thrown Inside 124 Borges and I . 104 On Living . 126 Everything and Nothing . 105 RAFAEL ALBERTI WEN I-TO Song 35 . 128 Perhaps . 107 CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE JACQUES PREVERT Seven-Sided Poem . 129 Barbara . 107 Don't Kill Yourself . 130 Infancy . 13 I ROBERT DESNOS Your Shoulders Hold Up the World . Ip I've Dreamed ofYou So Much 109 Family Portrait . 13 2 In the Middle of the Road There Was a Stone 134 ALEKSANDER WAT Before Breughe1 the Elder IIO JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE The Guest . 135 GEORGE SEFERIS from Mythistorema . I I I NICOLAS GUILLEN Interlude ofJoy . I 12 Sensemaya (Chant for Killing a Snake) 135 TATSUJI MIYOSHI RAYMOND QUENEAU The Ground . I 13 The Human Species . 137 Great Aso . 114 IfYou Imagine . 138 VITESLAV NEZVAL JEAN FOLLAIN Woman in Plural . I 15 Face the Animal . 139 Music of Spheres . 140 MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ A Mirror . 140 Hiroshima . I I 7 EDVARD KOCBEK SALVATORE QUASIMODO Longing for Jail . 141 Only If Love Should Pierce You . I 18 And Suddenly It's Evening . I I 8 PABLO NERUDA Body ofa Woman . 14 2 ROSE AUSLANDER I Remember You as You Were 142 Motherland . I 19 Tonight I Can Write . 143 Nothing but Death . 144 NAzIM HIKMET Walking Around . 146 Things I Didn't Know I Loved . I 19 Ode to My Socks . 147 Angina Pectoris . 123 Nothing More . 150 * xiv CONTENTS * j CONTENTS :ltV Too Many Names . ISO YANNIS RITSOS Keeping Still . 152 The Meaning ofSimplicity . 167 Wonder . 168 VLADIMIR HOLAN Beauty . 168 May,1945 . 153 Audible and Inaudible . 169 ]une,]uly, and August, 1945 IS 5 Resurrection . 156 MIKLOS RADNOTI Postcard . 169 DANIIL KHARMS The Beginning of a Beautiful Day (A Symphony) IS 7 ISRAEL EMIOT A Prayer in Nineteen Forty-Three 170 ATTILA JOZSEF The Seventh . 158 ANNA SWIR She Does Not Remember 171 SANDRO PENNA The First Madrigal . 171 Maybe I'm getting old, staying seated IS 9 The Second Madrigal . 172 A glass of milk and a piazza . 160 A Woman Talks to Her Thigh . 17 2 Look at the workers on the green field 160 A Conversation Through the Door . 175 The accused has only words . 160 from Building the Barricade: Building the Barricade, He Steals Furs, A Woman Said to Her Neighbor, Two Hunchbacks, LEOPOLDSEDARSENGHOR He Was Lucky . 177 To New York, 3 . 161 Taga for Mbaye Dyab . 161 MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Lullabies of the Onion . 177 GUNTER EICH Inventory . 164 CZESLAW MILOSZ Dedication . 180 RENE CHAR A Song on the End of the World . 181 The Gods Are Back . 164 A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto . 182 Mittelbergheim . 183 CESARE PAVESE Cafe . 184 Death will come and will have your eyes 164 A Gift . 185 Words from Confinement . 165 Winter . 186 And the City Stood in Its Brightness . 187 LEONARDO SINISGALLI from Throughout Our Lands . 188 Dog Flies . 166 A Felicitous Life . 189 Old Grief . 166 from Bobo's Metamorphosis . 19 0 Via Velasca . 167 On the Other Side . 191 Incantation . 19 2 On Angels . 193 Bypassing rue Descartes . 194 .. * xvi CONTEN T S * CONTEN T S xvii KARL KROLOW ODYSSEAS ELYTIS All Day Long We Walked in the Fields Qyite a Lot of Luck 21 3 195 Unforeseen Events 214 HO CH'I-FANG Get Drunk . 196 so CHONGJU Self-portrait . 214 EDMOND JABES Elephants ofThailand 21 5 Dedication . 197 CAMILO JOSE CELA MOUSHEGH ISH KHAN from Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son: Chapter 112: The Armenian Language Is the Home ofthe Armenian 8 The Clock Which Runs the City; Chapter 165: 19 Street Musicians . 2 16 AIME CESAIRE Ex-voto for a Shipwreck . 198 BERNARD DADIE Lagoonal Calendar . 200 IThank You God . 2I 8 All the Way from Akkad, from Elam, from Sumer 201 GLORIA FUERTES ORHAN VELI KANIK Birds Nest . 219 Rumors . 202 Prayer . 220 Poem with a Tail . 203 Now . 221 Qyantitative . 203 I Write Poetry, Gentlemen! 222 My Gold-Toothed Beauty Autobiography . 222 2°3 JULIO CORTAzAR ZELDA Theme for a Tapestry . 204 A Woman Who's Arrived at a Ripe Old Age 223 Progress and Retrogression . 204 JOHANNES BOBROWSKI OCTAVIO PAZ Latvian Songs . 223 The Key ofWater . 205 Sight, Touch . 205 PRIMO LEVI Flame, Speech . 207 August . 224 NICANOR PARRA ANNA KAMIENSKA The Tablets . 208 Thanking . 225 AMan . 209 A Prayer That Will Be Answered 226 I Take Back Everything I've Said 210 PAUL CELAN FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Memory of France . 227 YouTellUs What to Do . 2I I Corona . 227 Before You Came . 2 I 2 Deathfugue . 228 * * xviii CONTENTS ... CONTEN T S xix Zurich, the Stork Inn . 229 CHAIRIL ANWAR There was earth inside them 230 Heaven . 248 I hear that the axe has flowered 23 1 Tuti's Ice Cream . 248 Psalm . 231 Tenebrae . 232 AUGUSTINHO NETO Kinaxixi . 249 JoAo CABRAL DE MELO NETO The Emptiness ofMan . 233 WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I Am Too Near . 250 TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Letters of the Dea~ . 25 I Who Is a Poet . 234 A Great Number . 252 A Sketch for a Modern Love Poem 235 The Joy ofWriting . 253 In Praise ofMy Sister . 254 TYMOTEUSZ KARPOWICZ Pieta . 255 A Lesson of Silence . 236 Under a Certain Little Star 255 Ecclesiastes . 236 Homecoming . 256 The Terrorist, He Watches 257 H. C. ARTMANN Children of the Epoch 25 8 An Optician Has a Glass Heart . 237 Hunger Camp atJaslo 259 ERICH FRIED YVES BONNEFOY French Soldiers Mutiny-I91? 239 The Tree, the Lamp . 260 BLAGA DIMITROVA MIROSLAV HOLUB Ars Poetica . 240 The Fly . 261 Man cursing the sea 262 VASKO POPA Zito the magician 263 St. Sava's Journey . 240 Cinderella . 264 Prayer to the Wolf Shepherd 241 WolfAncestry . 242 GERRIT KOUWENAAR Wolf Eyes . 243 Elba . 265 Absolute Goal . 243 The Tenants ofthe Little Box 244 SADANAND REGE The Craftsmen ofthe Little Box 245 Old Leaves from the Chinese Earth 266 Last News About the Little Box 245 ZAHRAD MIRON BIALOSZEWSKI Cleaning Lentils 267 A Ballad of Going Down to the Store 246 ZBIGNIEW HERBERT PIER PAOLO PASOLINI The Rain . 268 Prayer to My Mother . 247 Report from Paradise . 270 * * xx CONTENTS CONTENTS xxi ~ ROBERTO JUARROZ Our Fear . 270 Hen . 272 from Ninth Vertical Poetry: Snow has turned the world into Five Men . 272 a cemetery . 294 My Father . 274 Life Draws a Tree . 294 What Mr. Cogito Thinks About Hell 275 from Second Vertical Poetry: Each one goes however he can 296 The Envoy ofMr.Cogito . 276 ERNESTO CARDENAL NINA CASSIAN "For Those Dead, Our Dead ..." . 297 Temptation . 277 AHMADSHAMLOU CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Existence . 298 From the Bridge . 278 INGEBORG BACHMANN YEHUDA AMICHAI Every Day . 298 Yom Kippur . 281 The Respite . 299 I know a man . 282 Letter . 282 JAIME SABINES A Man in His Life . 283 Pieces of Shadow . 300 A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention 284 We Did It . 285 JEAN-PIERRE ROSNAY Jerusalem Is Full ofUsed Jews . 285 Piazza San Marco . 301 My Mother Once Told Me . 286 A Dog After Love . 287 GUNTER GRASS Love Song . 287 Happiness . 302 When I Banged My Head on the Door 28 7 A Letter of Recommendation . 288 KIM NAM-JO The Diameter ofthe Bomb . 289 Foreign Flags . 302 Gifts of Love . 289 Tourist . 290 LUO FU Song of Everlasting Regret . 303 PHILIPPE JACCOTTET Distances . 291 HANSMAGNUSENZENSBERGER last will and testament . 308 ANGEL GONZALEZ Diatribe Against the Dead . 292 ENRIQUE LIHN Whatever You Want . 292 Torture Chamber . 309 EUGEN GOMRINGER DAN PAGIS Streets and Flowers . 293 Autobiography . 3I I Picture Postcard from Our Youth 312 * * xxii CONTENTS CONTENTS xxiii Ii.

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THE e~~. ANTHOLOGY !! INTERNATIONAL POETRY " "','/ " : I:;' 'if' EDITED BY ILYA KAMINSKY SUSAN HARRIS e~t;. AND WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS OF An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers k / CONTENTS Acknowledgments . XXXI Introduction by Ilya Kaminsky XXXIII RABINDRANATH TAGORE On My Birthday • I THE ECCO ANTHOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL POETRY. Copyright © 2010 by Words Without Borders. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States ofAmerica. No CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical The City • 2 Body, Remember • 3 articles and reviews. For information, address HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. Waiting for the Barbarians 3 Ithaka 5 HarperCollins books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information, please write: Special Markets Department, RUBEN DARia HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. The Wandering Song . 6 FIRST EDITION Designed by Mary Austin Speaker ELSE LASKER-SCHULER In the Evening • 8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. ISBN 978-0-06-158324-7 PAUL VALERY 10 11 12 13 14 DIXIRRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Angel Handed Me a Book 8 ~ ANTONIO MACHADO MOl SHE LEIB HALPERN I Never Sought the Glory . 9 Man, That Ape . 33 Last Night, as I Was Sleeping . 9 from Moral Proverbs and Folksongs 10 BLAISE CENDRARS Eyes . II White Suit . 34 RAINER MARIA RILKE GEORG TRAKL Autumn Day . 12 A Romance to Night . 35 Sometimes a Man Stands Up During Supper 12 Grodek . 35 The Eighth Duino Elegy . 13 Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes. . 15 GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI In Memoriam . 36 MAX JACOB Mystery ofthe Sky . 18 FERNANDO PESSOA Ifthey want me to be a mystic, fine. I'm a mystic. . 37 GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE The Little Car . 18 GABRIELA MISTRAL Hotel . 20 The Footprint . 38 Zone . 21 ANNA AKHMATOVA ALEXANDER BLOK A Land Not Mine . 40 [Night. Street. Lamp. Drugstore.] 26 Requiem . 41 Northern Elegies . 49 JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Our Own Land . 50 Oceans . 26 PIERRE REVERDY FRANZ KAFKA The Book . 51 On Parables . 27 Fruit Bowl . 5I Bottle . 5I UMBERTO SABA The Goat . 27 BORIS PASTERNAK Wild Vines . 52 VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV Sparrow Hills . 52 Incantation by Laughter . 28 For Anna Akhmatova . 53 A Wedding . 54 DINO CAMPANA Journey to Montevideo 29 NELLY SACHS Chorus ofthe Rescued . 55 GOTTFRIED BENN This Is Bad . 30 Chopin . 31 * * :II: CONTENTS k CONTENTS zi OSIP MANDELSTAM YANKEV GLATSHTEYN o Lord, help me to live through this night­ 56 Mozart . 76 Take from my palms, to soothe your heart . 56 A Song . 76 Leningrad . 57 Pear blossom and cherry blossom aim at me . 58 TRISTAN TZARA Through Kiev, through the streets ofthe monster . 58 Metal Coughdrops . 77 Your thin shoulders are for turning red under whips 59 The Stalin Epigram . 59 ANDRE BRETON Free Union . 78 MARINA TSVETAEVA from Poems for Moscow . 60 GERARDO DIEGO from Poems to Czechia . 6r Julio Campal . 80 from Poems to Czechia . 62 from Poems for Blok . 62 EUGENIO MONTALE from Poems for Akhmatova 63 Lemon Trees . 80 To Kiss a Forehead . 63 Xenia I . 82 To Conclude . 87 EDITH SODERGRAN In the Smoke . 87 On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems . 64 The Trees ofMy Childhood . 64 FEDERICO GARCiA LORCA The Little Mute Boy . 88 CESAR VALLEJO Farewell . 88 The Black Riders 65 Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias 89 The anger that breaks a man down into boys . 65 City That Does Not Sleep . 96 Masses . 66 Rundown Church 97 There are days, there comes to me an exuberant, political hunger . 67 Little Infinite Poem . 99 A man walks by with a baguette on his shoulder . 68 Song ofthe Cuban Blacks . 99 from The Nine Monsters . 69 Today I like life much less . 70 GIACOMO NOVENTA Black Stone Lying on a White Stone . 71 What's Beyond . 101 VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY BERTOLT BRECHT Past One O'Clock . 72 I, the Survivor . 101 from The Cloud in Trousers . 72 Motto . 101 JORGE DE LIMA HENRI MICHAUX Distribution of Poetry 74 from I Am Writing to You from a Far-offCountry 102 MITSUHARU KANEKO FRANCIS PONGE Opposition . 75 The Pleasures ofthe Door 1°4 * xii CONTENTS * CONTENTS xiii ~ JORGE LUIS BORGES Since I Was Thrown Inside 124 Borges and I . 104 On Living . 126 Everything and Nothing . 105 RAFAEL ALBERTI WEN I-TO Song 35 . 128 Perhaps . 107 CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE JACQUES PREVERT Seven-Sided Poem . 129 Barbara . 107 Don't Kill Yourself . 130 Infancy . 13 I ROBERT DESNOS Your Shoulders Hold Up the World . Ip I've Dreamed ofYou So Much 109 Family Portrait . 13 2 In the Middle of the Road There Was a Stone 134 ALEKSANDER WAT Before Breughe1 the Elder IIO JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE The Guest . 135 GEORGE SEFERIS from Mythistorema . I I I NICOLAS GUILLEN Interlude ofJoy . I 12 Sensemaya (Chant for Killing a Snake) 135 TATSUJI MIYOSHI RAYMOND QUENEAU The Ground . I 13 The Human Species . 137 Great Aso . 114 IfYou Imagine . 138 VITESLAV NEZVAL JEAN FOLLAIN Woman in Plural . I 15 Face the Animal . 139 Music of Spheres . 140 MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ A Mirror . 140 Hiroshima . I I 7 EDVARD KOCBEK SALVATORE QUASIMODO Longing for Jail . 141 Only If Love Should Pierce You . I 18 And Suddenly It's Evening . I I 8 PABLO NERUDA Body ofa Woman . 14 2 ROSE AUSLANDER I Remember You as You Were 142 Motherland . I 19 Tonight I Can Write . 143 Nothing but Death . 144 NAzIM HIKMET Walking Around . 146 Things I Didn't Know I Loved . I 19 Ode to My Socks . 147 Angina Pectoris . 123 Nothing More . 150 * xiv CONTENTS * j CONTENTS :ltV Too Many Names . ISO YANNIS RITSOS Keeping Still . 152 The Meaning ofSimplicity . 167 Wonder . 168 VLADIMIR HOLAN Beauty . 168 May,1945 . 153 Audible and Inaudible . 169 ]une,]uly, and August, 1945 IS 5 Resurrection . 156 MIKLOS RADNOTI Postcard . 169 DANIIL KHARMS The Beginning of a Beautiful Day (A Symphony) IS 7 ISRAEL EMIOT A Prayer in Nineteen Forty-Three 170 ATTILA JOZSEF The Seventh . 158 ANNA SWIR She Does Not Remember 171 SANDRO PENNA The First Madrigal . 171 Maybe I'm getting old, staying seated IS 9 The Second Madrigal . 172 A glass of milk and a piazza . 160 A Woman Talks to Her Thigh . 17 2 Look at the workers on the green field 160 A Conversation Through the Door . 175 The accused has only words . 160 from Building the Barricade: Building the Barricade, He Steals Furs, A Woman Said to Her Neighbor, Two Hunchbacks, LEOPOLDSEDARSENGHOR He Was Lucky . 177 To New York, 3 . 161 Taga for Mbaye Dyab . 161 MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Lullabies of the Onion . 177 GUNTER EICH Inventory . 164 CZESLAW MILOSZ Dedication . 180 RENE CHAR A Song on the End of the World . 181 The Gods Are Back . 164 A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto . 182 Mittelbergheim . 183 CESARE PAVESE Cafe . 184 Death will come and will have your eyes 164 A Gift . 185 Words from Confinement . 165 Winter . 186 And the City Stood in Its Brightness . 187 LEONARDO SINISGALLI from Throughout Our Lands . 188 Dog Flies . 166 A Felicitous Life . 189 Old Grief . 166 from Bobo's Metamorphosis . 19 0 Via Velasca . 167 On the Other Side . 191 Incantation . 19 2 On Angels . 193 Bypassing rue Descartes . 194 .. * xvi CONTEN T S * CONTEN T S xvii KARL KROLOW ODYSSEAS ELYTIS All Day Long We Walked in the Fields Qyite a Lot of Luck 21 3 195 Unforeseen Events 214 HO CH'I-FANG Get Drunk . 196 so CHONGJU Self-portrait . 214 EDMOND JABES Elephants ofThailand 21 5 Dedication . 197 CAMILO JOSE CELA MOUSHEGH ISH KHAN from Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son: Chapter 112: The Armenian Language Is the Home ofthe Armenian 8 The Clock Which Runs the City; Chapter 165: 19 Street Musicians . 2 16 AIME CESAIRE Ex-voto for a Shipwreck . 198 BERNARD DADIE Lagoonal Calendar . 200 IThank You God . 2I 8 All the Way from Akkad, from Elam, from Sumer 201 GLORIA FUERTES ORHAN VELI KANIK Birds Nest . 219 Rumors . 202 Prayer . 220 Poem with a Tail . 203 Now . 221 Qyantitative . 203 I Write Poetry, Gentlemen! 222 My Gold-Toothed Beauty Autobiography . 222 2°3 JULIO CORTAzAR ZELDA Theme for a Tapestry . 204 A Woman Who's Arrived at a Ripe Old Age 223 Progress and Retrogression . 204 JOHANNES BOBROWSKI OCTAVIO PAZ Latvian Songs . 223 The Key ofWater . 205 Sight, Touch . 205 PRIMO LEVI Flame, Speech . 207 August . 224 NICANOR PARRA ANNA KAMIENSKA The Tablets . 208 Thanking . 225 AMan . 209 A Prayer That Will Be Answered 226 I Take Back Everything I've Said 210 PAUL CELAN FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Memory of France . 227 YouTellUs What to Do . 2I I Corona . 227 Before You Came . 2 I 2 Deathfugue . 228 * * xviii CONTENTS ... CONTEN T S xix Zurich, the Stork Inn . 229 CHAIRIL ANWAR There was earth inside them 230 Heaven . 248 I hear that the axe has flowered 23 1 Tuti's Ice Cream . 248 Psalm . 231 Tenebrae . 232 AUGUSTINHO NETO Kinaxixi . 249 JoAo CABRAL DE MELO NETO The Emptiness ofMan . 233 WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I Am Too Near . 250 TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Letters of the Dea~ . 25 I Who Is a Poet . 234 A Great Number . 252 A Sketch for a Modern Love Poem 235 The Joy ofWriting . 253 In Praise ofMy Sister . 254 TYMOTEUSZ KARPOWICZ Pieta . 255 A Lesson of Silence . 236 Under a Certain Little Star 255 Ecclesiastes . 236 Homecoming . 256 The Terrorist, He Watches 257 H. C. ARTMANN Children of the Epoch 25 8 An Optician Has a Glass Heart . 237 Hunger Camp atJaslo 259 ERICH FRIED YVES BONNEFOY French Soldiers Mutiny-I91? 239 The Tree, the Lamp . 260 BLAGA DIMITROVA MIROSLAV HOLUB Ars Poetica . 240 The Fly . 261 Man cursing the sea 262 VASKO POPA Zito the magician 263 St. Sava's Journey . 240 Cinderella . 264 Prayer to the Wolf Shepherd 241 WolfAncestry . 242 GERRIT KOUWENAAR Wolf Eyes . 243 Elba . 265 Absolute Goal . 243 The Tenants ofthe Little Box 244 SADANAND REGE The Craftsmen ofthe Little Box 245 Old Leaves from the Chinese Earth 266 Last News About the Little Box 245 ZAHRAD MIRON BIALOSZEWSKI Cleaning Lentils 267 A Ballad of Going Down to the Store 246 ZBIGNIEW HERBERT PIER PAOLO PASOLINI The Rain . 268 Prayer to My Mother . 247 Report from Paradise . 270 * * xx CONTENTS CONTENTS xxi ~ ROBERTO JUARROZ Our Fear . 270 Hen . 272 from Ninth Vertical Poetry: Snow has turned the world into Five Men . 272 a cemetery . 294 My Father . 274 Life Draws a Tree . 294 What Mr. Cogito Thinks About Hell 275 from Second Vertical Poetry: Each one goes however he can 296 The Envoy ofMr.Cogito . 276 ERNESTO CARDENAL NINA CASSIAN "For Those Dead, Our Dead ..." . 297 Temptation . 277 AHMADSHAMLOU CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Existence . 298 From the Bridge . 278 INGEBORG BACHMANN YEHUDA AMICHAI Every Day . 298 Yom Kippur . 281 The Respite . 299 I know a man . 282 Letter . 282 JAIME SABINES A Man in His Life . 283 Pieces of Shadow . 300 A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention 284 We Did It . 285 JEAN-PIERRE ROSNAY Jerusalem Is Full ofUsed Jews . 285 Piazza San Marco . 301 My Mother Once Told Me . 286 A Dog After Love . 287 GUNTER GRASS Love Song . 287 Happiness . 302 When I Banged My Head on the Door 28 7 A Letter of Recommendation . 288 KIM NAM-JO The Diameter ofthe Bomb . 289 Foreign Flags . 302 Gifts of Love . 289 Tourist . 290 LUO FU Song of Everlasting Regret . 303 PHILIPPE JACCOTTET Distances . 291 HANSMAGNUSENZENSBERGER last will and testament . 308 ANGEL GONZALEZ Diatribe Against the Dead . 292 ENRIQUE LIHN Whatever You Want . 292 Torture Chamber . 309 EUGEN GOMRINGER DAN PAGIS Streets and Flowers . 293 Autobiography . 3I I Picture Postcard from Our Youth 312 * * xxii CONTENTS CONTENTS xxiii Ii.

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“From canonical modernists like Valéry, Vallejo, and Pasternak to younger poets of today, the Ecco Anthology collects an amazing spectrum of poetic voices from around the world.”—John Ashbery Edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris of Words Without Borders, The Ecco Anthology of Internation
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