Modern European Poetry Author:Willis (ed) Barnstone Here is the most inclusive collection of modern European poetry ever published in America. It contains poems by every important European poet, including Nobel Prize-winners Pasternak, Quasimodo, Seferis and Aleixandre. It also contains striking works by the brilliant new voices in European poetry, and a special section on important Latin America... more »n poetry. Each poet is represented by an unusually large selection of his works. English translations from the French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
This is the one anthology you keep right beside the bed, the desk, the cuisinart--wherever it is handiest when you want to know what modern European poetry is like--poetry in English, translated by poets! And now . . . you can say, . . . "What? You didn't know Borges wrote poems? Look, listen, this is what they're like!"« less