Another republic : 17 European and South American writers : [poems] / edited by Charles Simic and Mark Strand.

Other author Simic, Charles, 1938-2023
Other author Strand, Mark, 1934-2014.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Ecco Press, 1976.
Description247 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Literature, Modern--20th century. --Translations into English.
Poetry, Modern--20th century. --Translations into English.

Contents The pleasures of the door ; Water ; The pebble ; The horse / Francis Ponge -- I am writing to you from a far-off country ; Icebergs ; From In the Land of Magic ; Birth ; From The Emanglons ; The Enanglom / Henri Michaux -- The egg; The barn owl ; Black meat ; Housewives ; Father and daughter ; Signs ; Asia / Jean Follain -- Wooden die ; Study of the object ; Arion ; Episode in a library ; The seventh angel ; Rosy ear ; Five men ; Naked town ; A halt / Zbigniew Herbert -- The lines of the hand ; Theme for a tapestry ; The behavior of mirrors on Easter Island ; Instructions on How to Wind a Watch ; Instructions on or rather Examples of How to Be Afraid ; Marvelous pursuits ; Progress and retrogression / Julio Cortázar -- Tobacco shop ; If they want me to be a mystic, fine ; Salutation to Walt Whitman ; I am tired / Fernando Pessoa -- Hurry ; Old poem ; Natural being; Letter to two strangers ; Marvels of the will ; Obsidian butterfly ; Vrindaban / Octavio Paz -- Out of three or four in a room ; Tourist ; My mother once told me ; A pity. We were such a good invention ; Rain on a battlefield ; We did it ; If I forget thee, Jerusalem / Yehuda Amichai -- Childhood ; Kaunas; North Russian town ; On the Jewish dealer A.S. ; Cathedral ; Latvian songs ; The spoor in the sand / Johannes Bobrowski.
Contents Dedication ; Mittelbergheim ; A poor Christian looks at the ghetto ; A song on the end of the world ; To Robinson Jeffers ; The Master ; Elegy for N.N. / Czeslaw Milosz -- Piano solo ; Journey through Hell ; Litany of the little bourgeois ; The pilgrim ; The tablets ; The tunnel ; The viper ; Madrigal ; I take back everything I've said / Nicanor Parra -- Souvenir of the Ancient World ; The elephant ; Quadrille ; The dead in frock coats ; Wandering ; Don't kill yourself ; The dirty hand ; Your shoulders hold up the world / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Corona ; Aspen tree ... ; Shibboleth ; Psalm ; Chanson of a lady in the shade ; Fugue of death ; Your hand full of hours / Paul Celan -- The fly; Cinderella ; Man cursing the sea ; Žito the magician ; Suffering / Miroslav Holub -- The poet's place ; Putting out the lamp ; Final hour ; Dusk ; Alone with his work ; Miniature ; Beauty ; Insignificant needs / Yannis Ritsos -- The stargazer's legacy ; Proud error ; Forgetful number ; Echo turned to stone ; Prudent triangle ; The tale about a tale ; The yawn of yawns ; The little box ; The tenants of the little box ; The craftsmen of the little box ; The victims of the little box ; The enemies of the little box; The judges of the little box ; The prisoners of the little box ; Last news about the little box / Vasko Popa -- Cities & Desire 5 ; Hidden cities 1 ; Cities & signs 1 ; Cities & signs 2 ; Trading cities 1 ; Cities & signs 5 ; Cities & the dead 3 ; Continuous cities 4 ; Cities & the sky 5 / Italo Calvin.
Local noteAutographed "Mark Strand" on title page. Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #97A.1. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011
Issued in other formOnline version: Another republic. New York : Ecco Press, 1976
Genre/formTranslations.
LCCN 76016772
ISBN0912946288
ISBN9780912946283

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Joyner Stuart Wright Collection PN6019.A5 1976 ✔ Available Request Material