Poetry World 2 by Daniel Weissbort

Poetry World 2 by Daniel Weissbort by Daniel Weissbort

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Title: Poetry World 2
Editor:Daniel Weissbort
Contributors:George Bacovia, Stanislaw Baranczak, Corinna Bille, Rahul Bonner, Bo Carpelan, Forugh Farrokhzad, Hans Faverey, Philippe Jaccottet, Thorkild Jacobsen, Sarah Kirsch, György Petri, Sunya Sampadane
Translators:Robin Fulton, Jennifer Gage, George Gomori, Peter Jay, Francis R. Jones, Phyllis Kahaney, Judith Kroll, Kenneth McRobbie, U.R. Anantha Murthy, Agnes Stein, Mark Treharne, Martin Turner, Clive Wilmer, Chris Zelinski
Publisher: Anvil Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Price: £7.95
ISBN: 978-0-856461-84-2
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Synopsis

Poetry World 2 by Daniel Weissbort

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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