99 Poems in TranslationHarold Pinter, Anthony Astbury, Geoffrey Godbert 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. |
Contents
I am not among those who left our land | 1 |
Amergins Charm | 2 |
Song of the Fallen Deer | 3 |
Drinking | 4 |
Travelling in the Family | 5 |
Black Spring | 9 |
Psalm 137 | 10 |
7 | 12 |
Simplicity | 75 |
On the Painting of the Sistine Chapel | 76 |
Strophes | 77 |
Late in the Night | 79 |
Beauty Rohtraut | 81 |
Time topples Statyllios like a doddery oak | 83 |
Lone Gentleman | 84 |
The Mute Phenomena | 86 |
The King of Connacht | 14 |
Piddlepaddling race of critics rhizomefanciers | 15 |
The Mirabeau Bridge | 16 |
The Lilacs and the Roses | 18 |
The Albatross | 20 |
Antiquitez de Rome | 21 |
The Lark | 22 |
The Vulture | 23 |
War Has Been Given a Bad Name | 24 |
Freedom of Love | 25 |
A Learned Mistress | 28 |
Less pub than brothel and you the regulars | 29 |
The City | 30 |
Deathfugue | 31 |
White Suit | 33 |
The Rattle Bag | 34 |
Dante Alighieri to Guido Cavalcanti | 36 |
The Invention | 37 |
The Measures Taken | 38 |
The Prison | 39 |
Looking Back | 40 |
A Sad State of Freedom | 42 |
Tibullus pull yourself together | 44 |
The Stabat Mater | 45 |
Green | 48 |
We have amazed by our great sufferings | 49 |
The Seventh | 50 |
This coloured counterfeit that thou beholdest | 52 |
A Secret Kept | 53 |
Opposition | 54 |
We chant and enchant | 56 |
No | 57 |
For the Book of Love | 58 |
Alma Perdida | 59 |
To Himself | 60 |
The Testament | 61 |
Shemà | 63 |
A Letter | 64 |
The Faithless Wife | 66 |
The Ephemeral Past | 68 |
A lace curtain selfdestructs | 70 |
The Stalin Epigram | 71 |
Either get out of the house or conform to my tastes woman | 72 |
What About You? | 74 |
The Clock in the Old Jewish Ghetto | 87 |
Elegy 5 | 88 |
End of the Questionnaire | 89 |
English Lessons | 90 |
In the terrible night natural substance of all nights | 91 |
Whoso list to hunt I know where is a hind | 93 |
Doing a filthy pleasure is and short | 94 |
On the Back of a Photograph | 95 |
A Mad Poem Addressed to my Nephews and Nieces | 96 |
He | 98 |
Pater Noster | 99 |
The Prophet | 101 |
Antico Inverno | 103 |
If you imagine | 104 |
Time and Again | 106 |
The Stolen Heart | 107 |
Search | 108 |
Came to me | 109 |
Landscape of Screams | 110 |
Wake up Day calls you | 112 |
He is More than a Hero | 114 |
Mongol Libation | 115 |
Hell | 116 |
All the planets in heaven all the stars | 117 |
Rain and the Tyrants | 118 |
Woman | 119 |
I dreamed this dream and I still dream of it | 120 |
The Death of Adonis | 121 |
Summer | 123 |
I know the truth give up all other truths | 124 |
Easing My Heart | 125 |
Way | 126 |
Christmas | 127 |
Black Stone on Top of a White Stone | 129 |
In that café crowded with fools we stood | 130 |
The Ballad of Dead Ladies | 131 |
The Barmaid | 133 |
The Celestial Fire | 135 |
An Elegy | 136 |
Chronological list of poets | 138 |
141 | |
Index of first lines | 143 |
Acknowledgements | 146 |
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