Ninety-Nine Poems in Translation: An Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571176925 ISBN 13: 9780571176922

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1996

Synopsis

Full of surprising juxtapositions and possessed of a gargantuan range of voices and styles, 99 Poems in Translation is a unique convergence of some of the world’s most beautiful poetry. The poets range from Anna Akhmatova to Yuan Chen, from Charles Baudelaire to Virgil, each of them translated into memorable English by such poetic luminaries as Ben Johnson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Graves. Arranged alphabetically, this collection span centuries and continents.

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Amergin's Charm by Amergin
Drinking by Anacreon
Travelling In The Family by Carlos Drummond De Andrade
Black Spring by Innokenti Fyodorovich Annensky
Piddle-paddling Race Of Critics, Rhizome-fanciers by Antiphanes
Death Fugue by Paul Antschel
The Mirabeau Bridge by Guillaume Apollinaire
The Lilacs And The Roses by Louis Aragon
The Albatross by Charles Baudelaire
Antiquitez De Rome by Joachim Du Bellay
Song Of Solomon: The Song Of Songs: 7 by Bible
The Vulture by Alexander (aleksandr) Alexandrovich Blok
War Has Been Given A Bad Name by Bertolt Brecht
Freedom Of Love by Andre Breton
A Learned Mistress by Isobel Campbell
Less Pub Than Brothel, And You, The Regulars by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
The City by Constantine P. Cavafy
The Rattle Bag by Dafydd Ap Gwilym
Sonnet To Guido Cavalcanti by Dante Alighieri
This Coloured Counterfeit That Thou Beholdest... by Juana Ines De La Cruz
The Measures Taken by Erich Fried
The Faithless Wife by Federico Garcia Lorca
I Am Not Among Those Who Left Our Land by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
The Invention by Eugene Grindel
Looking Back by Heinrich Heine
A Sad State Of Freedom by Nazim Hikmet
The Stabat Mater by Jacopone Da Todi
Green by Juan Ramon Jimenez
We Have Amazed By Our Great Sufferings by Pierre Jean Jouve
The Seventh by Attila Jozsef
A Secret Kept by Judah Al-harizi
Opposition by Kaneko Mitsuharu
We Chant And Enchant by Velimir Vladimirovich Khlebnikov
No by Ki No Washika
The Mute Phenomena by Gerard Labrunie
For The Book Of Love by Jules Laforgue
Alma Perdida by Valery Larbaud
To Himself by Giacomo Leopardi
The Testament by Mikhail Yurevich (yuryevich) Lermontov
Shema by Primo Levi
The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
The Ephemeral Past by Antonio Machado Ruiz
A Lace Curtain Self-destructs by Stephane Mallarme
The Stalin Epigram by Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam
Warning To A Wife by Marcus Valerius Martialis
What About You? by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
Simplicity by Henri Michaux
On The Painting Of The Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Strophes by Oscar Vladislas De Lubicz- Milosz
Late In The Night by Eugenio Montale
Beauty Rohtraut by Eduard Friedrich Morike
Time Topples Statyllios Like A Doddery Oak by Myrinus
The Clock In The Old Jewish Ghetto by Vitezslav Nezval
End Of The Questionnaire by Dan Pagis
English Lessons by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
In The Terrible Night, Natural Substance Of All Nights by Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
On The Back Of A Photograph by Janos Pilinszky
A Mad Poem Addressed To My Nephews And Nieces by Po Chu-yi
He by Vasko Popa
Pater Noster by Jacques Prevert
Elegy 5 by Publius Ovidius Naso
Copa: The Barmaid by Publius Vergilius Maro
The Prophet by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
Antico Inverno by Salvatore Quasimodo
If You Imagine by Raymond Queneau
Tibullus, Pull Yourself Together! by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Lone Gentleman by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Time And Again by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Stolen Heart by Arthur Rimbaud
Search by Yannis Ritsos
Came To Me by Rudagi
Landscape Of Screams by Nelly Leonie Sachs
Wake Up. Day Calls You by Pedro Salinas
The Prison by Samuel Hanagid
He Is More Than A Hero by Sappho
Travel Notes: White Suit by Frederic Sauser
Mongol Libation by Victor Segalen
Hell by Edith Sodergran
All The Planets In Heaven, All The Stars by Gaspara Stampa
Rain And The Tyrants by Jules Supervielle
Woman by Sute-jo
I Dreamed This Dream And I Still Dream Of It by Arseny Tarkovsky
The Death Of Adonis by Theocritus
Doing, A Filthy Pleasure Is, And Short by Titus Petronius Niger
Summer by Georg Trakl
Easing My Heart by Tu Mu
Way by Tristan Tzara
I Know The Truth -- Give Up All Other Truths by Marina Ivanovna Tzvetayeva
Christmas by Giuseppe Ungaretti
The King Of Connacht by Anonymous
Psalm 137 by Anonymous
Song Of The Fallen Deer by Anonymous
Black Stone On Top Of A White Stone by Cesar Vallejo
The Lark by Bernart De Ventadorn
In That Cafe Crowded With Fools We Stood by Paul Verlaine
The Ballad Of Dead Ladies by Francois Villon
Sonnets To Laura In Life: 157 (from Petrarch) by Thomas Wyatt
The Celestial Fire by Yannai
An Elegy by Yuan Chen
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

From Publishers Weekly

Anthologies are seemingly making a comeback. This one is designed to represent some of the finest poetry--living poets excluded--in translation and, ostensibly, to provide a far-reaching overview of the tradition of translation. But given the fact that none of the poems is accompanied by its original text, and that the collection is peppered with quirky, if wonderful, choices, it is perhaps best not read too studiously. Paging through the poems (each rarely running for more than a page) becomes a delightful chance to catch, say, a riotous piece by Antiphanes entitled "Piddle-paddling race of critics, rhizome-fanciers," and then, on the next page, a beautiful translation by W. S. Merwin of Guillaume Apollinaire's "Le Pont Mirabeau." One notices the enormous energy of the Latin American poets Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo, as opposed to the more subtle refinements of the French poets Paul Eluard and Henri Michaux. The cacaphony of voices, the range of styles, cultures, and time periods, and, above all, the humor with which these selections were made, makes this an immensely enjoyable anthology.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0571176925
• ISBN 13: 9780571176922
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Astbury Anthony, Pinter Harold