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100 great poems of the twentieth century
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Publication Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Northern elegies / Anna Akhmatova
Buster Keaton looks in the woods for his love who is a real cow / Rafael Alberti
We have done our duty / Yehuda Amichai
The city limits / A.R. Ammons
Residue / Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Ode to the bourgeois gentleman / Mário de Andrade
Fatness / Alan Ansen
The pretty redhead / Guillaume Apollinaire
Syringa / John Ashbery
In memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden
To the sun / Ingeborg Bachmann
The moon and the night and the men / John Berryman
In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop
Evening in the sanitarium / Louise Bogan
In praise of darkness / Jorge Luis Borges
Waiting for the barbarians / C.P. Cavafy
Death fugue / Paul Celan
Menus / Blaise Cendrars
Batouque / Aimé Césaire
Poems on death / Inger Christensen
Marine surface, low overcast / Amy Clampitt
My grandmother's love letters / Hart Crane
Mid-way / Robert Desnos
The helmsman / H.D.
On an east wind from the wars / Alan Dugan
This place rumored to have been Sodom / Robert Duncan
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot
The mad pomegranate tree / Odysseus Elytis
An old man's winter night / Robert Frost
Prayer / Gloria Fuertes
A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg
Lament / Thom Gunn
The convergence of the Twain / Thomas Hardy
At Mornington / Gwen Harwood
Witch doctor / Robert Hayden
"More light! More light!" / Anthony Hecht
Mr. Cogito thinks about Hell / Zbigniew Herbert
Things I didn't know I loved / Nazim Hikmet
Translated from the German or the Bosnian / Max Jacob
A prayer to go to paradise with the donkeys / Francis Jammes
The deer lay down their bones / Robinson Jeffers
"Life draws a tree
" / Roberto Juarroz
Psalm and lament / Donald Justice
One train may hide another / Kenneth Koch
Next, please / Philip Larkin
The ship of death / D.H. Lawrence
The old man's monologue with death / Enrique Lihn
The big mystical circus / Jorge de Lima
The unfaithful married woman / Federico García Lorca
My last afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow / Robert Lowell
The broken home / James Merrill
Vixen / W.S. Merwin
"I am writing to you from a far-off country" / Henri Michaux
The cameo / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Encounter / Czesław Miłosz
Elegy for N.N. / Czesław Miłosz
The eel / Eugenio Montale
The fish / Marianne Moore
The absent / Edwin Muir
Very like a whale / Ogden Nash
Ode to the seagull / Pablo Neruda
To the film industry in crisis / Frank O'Hara
The undertaking in New Jersey / George Oppen
Anthem for the doomed youth / Wilfred Owen
Ein Leben / Dan Pagis
The tunnel / Nicanor Parra
Winter night / Boris Pasternak
Morning star / Cesare Pavese
As one listens to the rain / Octavio Paz
The tobacco shop / Fernando Pessoa (Álvaro de Campos)
Water / Francis Ponge
The little box / Vasko Popa
Canto XLV / Ezra Pound
Barbara / Jacques Prévert
If you imagine / Raymond Queneau
Tombs of the Hetaerae / Rainer Maria Rilke
Miniature / Yannos Ritsos
Dolor / Theodore Roethke
In the middle of life / Tadeusz Rozewicz
Epiphany, 1937 / George Seferis
April inventory / W.D. Snodgrass
A postcard from the volcano / Wallace Stevens
That winter / Ruth Stone
Rain and the tyrants / Jules Supervielle
Question / May Swenson
The end and the beginning / Wisława Szymborska
Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas
Rain / Edward Thomas
Track / Tomas Tranströmer
An attempt at jealousy / Marina Tsvetaeva
Rose nocturnal / Xavier Villaurrutia
The season of phantasmal peace / Derek Walcott
Lullaby: moonlight lingers / Robert Penn Warren
Advice to a prophet / Richard Wilbur
These / William Carlos Williams
The journey / James Wright
I have seen black hands / Richard Wright
In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz / William Butler Yeats
That's how we are / Andrea Zanzotto
"A"-11 / Louis Zukofsky.
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