The Vintage book of contemporary world poetry / edited, and with an introduction by J.D. McClatchy.

On the Origin of the Contrary
Vanishing Lung Syndrome
Immanuel Kant
Interferon
Vasko Popa
In the Ashtray
Pig
Heaven's Ring
Burning Shewolf
Novica Tadic
Dogs Gambol
Nobody
Man from the Death Institute
Je

Sophia De Mello Breyner
Day of Sea
Beach
Muse
The Small Square
I Feel the Dead
The Flute
Eugenio De Andrade
Penniless Lovers
Music
Silence
Fable
from White on White
Angel Gonzalez
Before I Could Call Myself Angel Gonzalez
City
Yesterday
The Future
Inventory of Places Propitious for Love
Whatever You Want
Diatribe Against the Dead
Yves Bonnefoy
The Tree, the Lamp
The Words of Evening
Summer Again
De Natura Rerum
The All, the Nothing
A Stone
The Well
The Top of the World
Philippe Jaccottet
Distances
These wood-shadows
Right at the end of night
Dawn
Swifts
Weight of Stones
I rise with an Effort
Glimpses
Jacques Dupin
Mineral Kingdom
My Body
Waiting with lowered voice
from Songs of Rescue
Claire Malroux
Fingers probe
In October
Every morning
Octet Before Winter
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Prayer to My Mother
Southern Dawn
Civil Song
Lines from the Testament
Part of a Letter to the Codignola Boy
The Day of My Death
Andrea Zanzotto
How Long
Distance
Epiphany
If It Were Not
Behold the Thin Green
Campea
Patrizia Cavalli
But first one must free oneself
The Moroccans with the carpets
Now that time seems all mine
To simulate the burning of the heart
This time I won't permit the blue
Far from kingdoms
Ah, yes, to your misfortune
Rutger Kopland
Johnson Brothers Ltd.
Ulumbo, a Cat
Breughel's Winter
Natzweiler
Thanks to the Things
Eddy Van Vliet
The Coastline
Old Champagne Glass
Valediction - To My Father
The Courtyard
The City
Party
Henrik Nordbrandt
China Observed Through Greek Rain in Turkish Coffee
No Matter Where We Go
Our Love Is Like Byzantium
Streets
Sailing
Tomas Transtromer
After a Death
Sketch in October
The Scattered Congregation
Below Freezing
Paavo Haavikko
from The Short Year
from Darkness
Pentti Saarikoski
Potato Thief
from The Dance Floor on the Mountain
from Invitation to the Dance
Nijole Miliauskaite
On winter nights
In the damp places
These are lilacs
Temporary City
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
For the Grave of a Peace-Loving Man
Middle-Class Blues
Song for Those Who Know
At Thirty-three
The Holiday
Short History of the Bourgeoisie
Vanished Work
The Poison
Ingeborg Bachmann
Paris
Psalm
Invocation of the Great Bear
Songs from an Island
Aria I
A Kind of Loss
Czeslaw Milosz
A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
Incantation
My Faithful Mother Tongue
Bypassing Rue Descartes
Tadeusz Rozewicz
Who Is a Poet
Draft of a Modern Love Poem
Among Many Tasks
Homework Assignment on the Subject of Angels
Wislawa Szymborska
Unexpected Meeting
The Women of Rubens
Pieta
Theater Impressions
Under a Certain Little Star
Reality Demands
The End and the Beginning
Zbigniew Herbert
To Marcus Aurelius
Hen
Drawer
Our Fear
Elegy of Fortinbras
Remembering My Father
Mr. Cogito Meditates on Suffering
What Mr. Cogito Thinks About Hell
Adam Zagajewski
Betrayal
At Daybreak
Electric Elegy
Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America
When Death Came
Agnes Nemes Nagy
Sincerity
Between
Like One Who
A Four-Light Window
Sandor Csoori
My Masters
A Thin, Black Band
Postponed Nightmare
We Were Good, Good and Obedient
Everyday History
Gyorgy Petri
By an Unknown Poet from Eastern Europe, 1955
To S. V.
Gratitude
To Be Said Over and Over Again
Night Song of the Personal Shadow
Christmas 1956
Electra
Morning Coffee
Miroslav Holub
Man Cursing the Sea
The Fly