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âThe God Abandons Antony,â translated from Constantine Cavafyâs original Greek, from Collected PoemsâRevised Edition, edited by George Savidis. Translation copyright © 1975, 1992 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
âThe Pretty Redhead,â translated from Guillaume Apollinaireâs original French, from Collected Poems. Translation copyright © 1971 by James Wright. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.
âSong for a Dark Girlâ from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel. Copyright © 1927 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Harold Ober Associates and Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
âBlack Stone Lying on a White Stone,â translated from CĂ©sar Vallejoâs original Spanish, from Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems, edited by Robert Bly. Copyright © 1930 by CĂ©sar Vallejo. Translation copyright © 1971 by Robert Bly.
âIâm Going to Sleep,â translated from Alfonsina Storniâs original Spanish by Lauren Watel. Translation copyright © 2020 by Lauren Watel. Used by permission.
âTo Julia de Burgos,â translated from Julia de Burgosâs original Spanish by Lauren Watel. Translation copyright © 2020 by Lauren Watel. Used by permission.
âIn Memory of M. B.â from Poems of Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward. Copyright © 1940 by Anna Akhmatova. Translation copyright © 1967, 1973 by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. Used by permission of Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents and FTM Agency, Ltd.
âThe Fifth Eclogue,â translated from MiklĂłs RadnĂłtiâs original Hungarian, from Clouded Sky. Copyright © 1943 by MiklĂłs RadnĂłti. Translation copyright © 1972, 2003 by Mrs. MiklĂłs RadnĂłti, Steven Polgar, Stephen Berg, and S. J. Marks. Used by permission of Sheep Meadow Press.
âCafĂ©â from New and Collected Poems: 1931â2001 by CzesĆaw MiĆosz. Copyright © 1945 by CzesĆaw MiĆosz. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers LLC.
âMerciful Godâ from Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky, translated by Kathryn Hellerstein. Translation copyright © 1999 by Kathryn Hellerstein. Reprinted by permission of Wayne State University Press.
âShemĂ ,â translated from Primo Leviâs original Italian, from Complete Works of Primo Levi, edited by Ann Goldstein. Copyright © 1976 by Primo Levi. Translation copyright © 2015 by Jonathan Galassi. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
âOn Living,â translated from NĂązım Hikmetâs original Turkish, from Poems of NĂązım Hikmet. Copyright © 1948 by The NĂązım Hikmet Estate. Translation copyright © 1994, 2002 by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk. Used with the permission of Persea Books and Vicki Satlow of The Agency srl on behalf of The NĂązım Hikmet Estate.
âAspects of Robinsonâ from The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, edited by Donald Justice. First appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright © 1948 by Weldon Kees. Used by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.
âThe rites for Cousin Vitâ from Annie Allenby Gwendolyn Brooks. Copyright © 1949 by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions.
âNot Waving but Drowningâ from Collected Poems of Stevie Smith by Stevie Smith. Copyright © 1957 by Stevie Smith. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
âIn the Midst of Life,â translated from Tadeusz RĂłĆŒewiczâs original Polish, from The Survivors and Other Poems. Translation by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire copyright © 1976 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
âOn the road at night there stands the manâ from Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch, translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. Copyright © 1959 by Dahlia Ravikovitch. Translation copyright © 2009 by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. Used by permission of W. W. Norton and Company, The Estate of Dahlia Ravikovitch, and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Israel.
âPoem of the Gifts,â translated from Jorge Luis Borgesâs original Spanish, from Selected Poems, edited by Alexander Coleman. Copyright © 1960, 1999 by Maria Kodama. Translation copyright © 1999 by Alastair Reid. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, The Colchie Agency, and The Wylie Agency LLC.
âIn the Parkâ from Selected Poems by Gwen Harwood. First appeared in the Bulletin published under the pseudonym Walter Lehmann. Copyright © 1961 by Gwen Harwood. Used by permission of Penguin Random House Australia.
âThe Whippingâ from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden, edited by Frederick Glaysher. Copyright © 1962 by Robert Hayden. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
âNight Sweatâ from Collected Poems by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 1964 by Robert Lowell. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
âWanting to Dieâ from Live or Die by Anne Sexton. First appeared in the Observer. Copyright © 1964 by Anne Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
âMy Nightingale,â translated from Rose AuslĂ€nderâs original German, from After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets. Copyright © 1965 by Rose AuslĂ€nder. Translation copyright © 2004 by Eavan Boland. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
âNext Dayâ from The Complete Poems by Randall Jarrell. First appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright © 1963 by Randall Jarrell. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
âMontana Fifty Years Agoâ from The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele. Copyright © 1967 by J. V. Cunningham. Reprinted by permission of Ohio University Press.
âFor the Anniversary of My Deathâ by W. S. Merwin from The Essential W. S. Merwin, edited by Michael Wiegers. Copyright © 1967 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company LLC on behalf of Copper Canyon Press and The Wylie Agency LLC.
âPoemâ from Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, edited by Janet E. Kaufman and Anne F. Herzog with Jan Heller Levi. Copyright © 1968 by Muriel Rukeyser. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
âThe Idea of Ancestryâ from The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight. Copyright © 1968 by Etheridge Knight. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
âHenryâs Understandingâ from Collected Poems: 1937â1971 by John Berryman. First appeared in the Harvard Advocate. Copyright © 1969 by John Berryman. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
âA Deathplaceâ from Night Music by L. E. Sissman. First appeared in Harperâs Magazine. Copyright © 1969 by L. E. Sissman. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
âThey Feed They Lionâ from New Selected Poems by Philip Levine. Copyright © 1968, 1972 by Philip Levine. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
âThe Small Square,â translated from Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresenâs original Portuguese, from Log Book: Selected Poems. Copyright © 1972 by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Translation copyright © 1997 by Richard Zenith. Reprinted by permission of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. and S.P.A. (Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores).
âUnder One Small Star,â translated from WisĆawa Szymborskaâs original Polish, from Map: Collected and Last Poems. Copyright © 1972 by The WisĆawa Szymborska Foundation. Translation by Clare Cavanagh and StanisĆaw BaraĆczak copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
âDegrees of Gray in Philipsburgâ from Making Certain It Goes On: Collected Poems of Richard Hugo by Richard Hugo. Copyright © 1973 by Richard Hugo. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
âOn This Side of the Riverâ from New and Selected Poems by Stephen Berg. First appeared in American Review. Copyright © 1975 by Stephen Berg. Used by permission of Millie Lane-Berg.
âAubadeâ from The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett. First appeared in the Times Literary Supplement. Copyright © 1977 by Philip Larkin. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Faber & Faber.
âParentsâ from Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith. First appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright © 1980 by William Meredith. Used by permission of TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press.
âEssayâ from Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems 1969â1977 by Hayden Carruth. Copyright © 1978 by Hayden Carruth. Used by permission of Sheep Meadow Press.
âArchesâ from Collected Poems by James Schuyler. First appeared in the New York Review of Books. Copyright © 1978 by James Schuyler. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
âKindnessâ from Words Under Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye. Copyright © 1980 by Naomi Shihab Nye. Reprinted by permission of Far Corner Books.
âThe Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago Riverâ from The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected (1979â1991) by Allen Grossman. Copyright © 1979 by Allen Grossman. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
âThe Book of Yolekâ from The Transparent Man by Anthony Hecht. First appeared in the New Statesman. Copyright © 1982 by Anthony Hecht. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
âMr Cogito and the Imagination,â translated from Zbigniew Herbertâs original Polish, from The Collected Poems 1956â1998. Copyright © 1983 by The Estate of Zbigniew Herbert. Translation by Alissa Valles copyright ...