Books for Independent Thinkers

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Book Details

  • Paperback
  • 160 pages
  • ISBN 978-0-856461-84-2
  • Publisher Anvil Press

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An anthology of poetry in translation.

Stanislaw Baranczak: `Artificial Respiration’ – translated by Chris Zielinski

Sumerian Poems – Thorkild Jacobsen

Amarusataka – Rahul Bonner

Sunya Sampadane – Judith Kroll & U.R. Anantha Murthy

Forugh Farrokhzad – Martin Turner

György Petri – Clive Wilmer & George Gömöri; Kenneth McRobbie

Philippe Jaccottet – Jennifer Gage (poems) Mark Treharne (prose)

Sarah Kirsch – Agnes Stein

Bo Carpelan – Robin Fulton

Corinna Bille – Phyllis Kahaney

Hans Faverey – Francis R. Jones

George Bacovia – Peter Jay


Daniel Weissbort, born in 1935, read History at Cambridge and did graduate work at the London School of Economics on the politics of recent Soviet literature. He founded `Modern Poetry in Translation’ with Ted Hughes in 1965, and was on the advisory board of the London Poetry International festivals from 1969 to 1972.

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