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Title: The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry by J.D. McClatchy ISBN: 0-679-74115-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another gem
Comment: Given the daunting task of selecting from, literally, a world of poets, McClatchy succeeds admirably. Once again his editing has me running out to buy individual books by the poets in the anthology.
Now if he would do a book of "Contemporary English Language [But Non-American] Poetry" to offer closure....
An aspect of McClatchy's editing that I like is that the selection per poet is large enough to get a good introduction - the opposite is a fault of most anthologies - though this does cause worthy poets to excluded.
I would love for some publisher to publish this and Contemporary American Poetry in good hardbound versions. They are prized members of my library, but, sadly, are not durable.
Rating: 4
Summary: Poetry Worth Reading from around the World
Comment: A solid selection of poems written by major poets from around the globe. Diverse cultures represented. The quality of the translations is very good, making the poems accessible to English-speaking readers. One recurrent problem: no explanatory notes are provided to help English-speakers, particularly younger readers and college students, grasp the historical, political, social, or cultural allusions in some poems. For example, the Viet Nam poet Nguyen's "Model Citizens of the Regime" takes on fuller meaning if the reader knows that the "jail" referred to in the poem is not a penal institution for criminals but actually a communist re-education camp to which Vietnamese children were sent to be indoctrinated in Marxist ideology. Having a bit of this geopolitical, social, or cultural context, readers can gain a fuller understanding of the poems. One small complaint: the anthology was published prior to the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska's receipt of the Nobel Prize, and therefore the head note for her selection does not make note of that honor.
Given the general lack of interest in poetry, especially poetry from other countries, we're nonetheless lucky to have this anthology.
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Title: The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by J.D. McClatchy ISBN: 1400030935 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0156005743 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Poetry of Our World : An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Ed J. Paine ISBN: 0060951931 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time by Katherine Washburn, John S. Major, Clifton Fadiman, Katharine Washburn ISBN: 0393041301 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Third Edition by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, Robert O'Clair, Richard Ellman ISBN: 039332429X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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