Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

by Forche, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780393309768
• ISBN10: 0393309762
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-05-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Bearing witness to extremity'”whether of war, torture, exile, or repression'”the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square.

Table of Contents

Introduction	29	(49)
Acknowledgments	49	(4)
The Armenian Genocide (1909--1918)	53	(10)
Siamanto (1878--1915)	55	(4)
Grief	56	(1)
The Dance	57	(2)
Vahan Tekeyan (1878--1945)	59	(4)
Forgetting	59	(1)
Prayer on the Threshold of Tomorrow	60	(1)
Dream	61	(1)
The Country of Dust	62	(1)
World War I (1914--1918)	63	(32)
Edward Thomas (1878--1917)	66	(1)
The Owl	66	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880--1918)	67	(4)
Shadow	67	(1)
Post Card	68	(1)
The Little Car	68	(2)
Stanzas Against Forgetting	70	(1)
Gottfried Benn (1886--1967)	71	(4)
Monologue	71	(2)
Fragments	73	(2)
Siegfried Sasson (1886--1967)	75	(4)
A Working Party	75	(1)
The Death-Bed	76	(2)
Repression of War Experience	78	(1)
Georg Trakl (1887--1914)	79	(2)
A Romance to Night	79	(1)
Downfall	80	(1)
In the East	80	(1)
Grodek	81	(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)	81	(3)
Dulce et Decorum Est	82	(1)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	82	(1)
Exposure	83	(1)
e.e. cummings (1894--1962)	84	(2)
(i sing of Olaf glad and big)	85	(1)
am was. are leaves few this. is these a or	86	(1)
Robert Graves (1895--1985)	86	(2)
Recalling War	87	(1)
Eugenio Montale (1896--1981)	88	(3)
The Storm	88	(1)
The Fan	89	(1)
Personae Separatae	90	(1)
Day and Night	90	(1)
Andre Breton (1896--1966)	91	(4)
More than Suspect	91	(1)
War	92	(3)
Revolution and Repression in the Soviet Union (1917--1991)	95	(52)
Velimir Khlebnikov (1885--1922)	98	(3)
It has the unassuming face of a burnt-out candle	99	(1)
Suppose I make a timepiece of humanity	100	(1)
Anna Akhmatova (1889--1966)	101	(8)
Requiem	101	(8)
Boris Pasternak (1890--1960)	109	(3)
Hamlet	109	(1)
Fresco Come to Life	110	(1)
Mary Magdalene (I)	111	(1)
Victor Serge (Victor Lvovich Kibalchich) (1890--1947)	112	(9)
The Asphyxiated Man	113	(2)
Dialectic	115	(2)
Constellation of Dead Brothers	117	(2)
Hands	119	(2)
Osip Mandelstam (1891--1938)	121	(3)
The Stalin Epigram	122	(1)
Mounds of human heads are wandering into the distance	123	(1)
Leningrad	123	(1)
I was washing outside in the darkness	124	(1)
Marine Tsvetayeva (1892--1941)	124	(5)
A white low sun	125	(1)
from Poems to Czechoslovakia	125	(1)
You, walking past me	126	(1)
from the cycle Akhmatova	127	(2)
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893--1930)	129	(6)
from At the Top of My Voice	129	(6)
Past one o'clock	135	(1)
Daniil Kharms (1905--1942)	135	(2)
Symphony No. 2	135	(1)
The Beginning of a Beautiful Day (A Symphony)	136	(1)
An Event on the Street	137	(1)
Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936-- )	137	(4)
Sukhanovo	138	(3)
Joseph Brodsky (1940-- )	141	(4)
The Berlin Wall Tune	142	(1)
To Urania	143	(1)
Elegy	144	(1)
Irina Ratushinskaya (1954-- )	145	(2)
`Try to cover your shivering shoulders'	145	(1)
`But only not to think'	146	(1)
The Spanish Civil War (1936--1939)	147	(28)
Antonio Machado (1875--1939)	150	(2)
Rainbow at Night	150	(1)
Coplas	151	(1)
Today's Meditation	152	(1)
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898--1936)	152	(5)
Little Infinite Poem	153	(1)
Rundown Church	154	(1)
The Quarrel	155	(1)
Casida of Sobbing	156	(1)
Rafael Alberti (1902-- )	157	(3)
The Warlike Angels	157	(1)
Punishments	158	(1)
The Angels of the Ruins	159	(1)
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)	160	(7)
Spain 1937	161	(3)
September 1, 1939	164	(2)
Epitaph on a Tyrant	166	(1)
Miguel Hernandez (1910--1942)	167	(8)
I go on in the dark, lit from within	167	(1)
War	168	(1)
Waltz Poem of Those in Love and Inseparable Forever	168	(1)
July 18, 1936-July 18, 1938	169	(1)
Tomb of the Imagination	170	(1)
Lullaby of the Onion	170	(5)
World War II (1939--1945)	175	(182)
Gertrude Stein (1874--1946)	179	(2)
Scenes from the Door	179	(2)
Max Jacob (1876--1944)	181	(2)
War	182	(1)
In Search of the Traitor	182	(1)
Moon Poem	182	(1)
The Horrible Today	183	(1)
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)	183	(5)
from Pisan Canto LXXIV	183	(5)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886--1961)	188	(6)
from The Walls Do Not Fall	188	(6)
Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Leger Leger) (1887--1975)	194	(3)
from Exile	194	(3)
Yvan Goll (1891--1950)	197	(3)
Your Sleep	197	(1)
The Last River	198	(1)
Lackawanna Elegy	198	(2)
Paul Eluard (1895--1952)	200	(6)
November 1936	200	(1)
Meetings	201	(2)
Nazi Song	203	(1)
Dawn Dissolves the Monsters	203	(1)
To Her of Whom They Dream	204	(2)
Tristan Tzara (Sami Rosenstock) (1896--1963)	206	(2)
Waking	206	(1)
For Robert Desnos	206	(2)
Philippe Soupault (1897--1990)	208	(3)
Poems from Saint Pelagia Prison	208	(1)
One o'Clock	209	(1)
Condemned	210	(1)
You Who Sleep	210	(1)
Bertolt Brecht (1898--1956)	211	(8)
The God of War	212	(1)
When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling Rain	212	(1)
From a German War Primer	213	(3)
To Those Born Later	216	(2)
The World's One Hope	218	(1)
Benjamin Peret (1899--1959)	219	(3)
Hymn of the Patriotic War Veterans	220	(1)
Nungesser und Coli Sind Verreckt	221	(1)
Francis Ponge (1899--1988)	222	(8)
The Sun as a Spinning Top (I)	222	(1)
The Silent World Is Our Only Homeland	223	(3)
The Water of Tears	226	(1)
The Prairie	227	(3)
Robert Desnos (1900--1945)	230	(8)
Ars Poetica	231	(2)
The Night Watchman of Pont-au-Change	233	(4)
Letter to Youki	237	(1)
Jacques Prevert (1900--1977)	238	(4)
Song in the Blood	238	(2)
Barbara	240	(2)
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901--1968)	242	(3)
19 January 1944	242	(1)
Man of My Time	243	(1)
To the Fifteen of Piazzale Loreto	243	(1)
Auschwitz	244	(1)
Stanley Kunitz (1905-- )	245	(4)
Father and Son	245	(1)
Night Letter	246	(2)
The Last Picnic	248	(1)
Louis MacNeice (1907--1963)	249	(4)
Prayer Before Birth	249	(1)
Brother Fire	250	(1)
Troll's Courtship	251	(2)
Rene Char (1907--1988)	253	(3)
Argument	253	(1)
Unbending Prayer	254	(1)
Man flees suffocation	254	(1)
Leaves of Hypnos No. 128	254	(2)
Disdained Apparitions	256	(1)
Gunter Eich (1907--1972)	256	(7)
Inventory	257	(1)
Old Postcards	258	(2)
Geometrical Place	260	(2)
Seminar for Backward Pupils	262	(1)
Cesare Pavese (1908--1950)	263	(2)
August Moon	263	(1)
Words from Confinement	264	(1)
George Oppen (1908--1984)	265	(9)
Route	266	(8)
Anna Swir (Anna Swirszczynska) (1909--1984)	274	(3)
I Am Afraid of Fire	274	(1)
A Conversation Through the Door	275	(1)
We Survived Them	276	(1)
White Wedding Slippers	276	(1)
Stephen Spender (1909-- )	277	(4)
Ultima Ratio Regum	277	(1)
Air Raid Across the Bay at Plymouth	278	(1)
Rejoice in the Abyss	279	(1)
Epilogue to a Human Drama	280	(1)
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)	281	(3)
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	281	(1)
Ceremony after a Fire Raid	282	(2)
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)	284	(2)
Memories of West Street and Lepke	284	(2)
Howard Nemerov (1920--1991)	286	(2)
Night Operations, Coastal Command RAF	286	(1)
Models	287	(1)
Ultima Ratio Reagan	288	(1)
Erich Fried (1921--1988)	288	(5)
One Kind of Freedom Speaks	289	(1)
Exile	289	(1)
My Girlfriends	290	(1)
What Things Are Called	291	(2)
Janos Pilinszky (1921--1981)	293	(3)
Harbach 1944	293	(1)
Passion of Ravensbruck	294	(1)
On the Wall of a KZ-Lager	295	(1)
Frankfurt 1945	295	(1)
Ilse Aichinger (1921-- )	296	(2)
Glimpse from the Past	297	(1)
In Which Names	297	(1)
Enumeration	298	(1)
Louis Simpson (1923-- )	298	(26)
The Runner	298	(26)
Richard Hugo (1923--1982)	324	(3)
Napoli Again	324	(1)
A View from Cortona	325	(1)
The Yards of Sarajavo	326	(1)
Anthony Hecht (1923-- )	327	(2)
More Light! More Light!	327	(1)
It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It.	328	(1)
Denise Levertov (1923-- )	329	(4)
Christmas 1944	330	(1)
Fragrance of Life, Odor of Death	331	(1)
In Thai Binh (Peace) Province	331	(1)
Weeping Woman	332	(1)
Tamura Ryuichi (1923-- )	333	(7)
My Imperialism	333	(2)
October Poem	335	(1)
Standing Coffin	336	(2)
Spiral Cliff	338	(2)
Alan Dugan (1923-- )	340	(3)
Memorial Service for the Invasion Beach Where the Vacation in the Flesh Is Over	340	(1)
On an East Wind from the Wars	341	(1)
Portrait from the Infantry	342	(1)
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926--1973)	343	(2)
Early Noon	343	(1)
In the Storm of Roses	344	(1)
A Kind of Loss	345	(1)
Gunter Grass (1927-- )	345	(4)
Music for Brass	346	(1)
In the Egg	347	(1)
Saturn	348	(1)
Charles Simic (1938-- )	349	(8)
Butcher Shop	350	(1)
The Lesson	350	(2)
Begotten of the Spleen	352	(1)
Prodigy	353	(1)
Toy Factory	354	(3)
The Holocaust, The Shoah (1933--1945)	357	(48)
Nelly Sachs (1891--1970)	361	(3)
O the Chimneys	361	(1)
O Sister	362	(1)
But Look	363	(1)
You	364	(1)
Gertrud Kolmar (1894--1943)	364	(4)
Judith	365	(1)
The Sacrifice	366	(2)
Miklos Radnoti (1909--1944)	368	(5)
Forced March	369	(1)
Letter to My Wife	369	(2)
Peace, Horror	371	(1)
Picture Postcards	371	(1)
Seventh Eclogue	372	(1)
Primo Levi (1919--1987)	373	(4)
Buna	374	(1)
Shema	375	(1)
For Adolf Eichmann	375	(1)
Annunciation	376	(1)
Voices	377	(1)
Jiri Orten (1919--1941)	377	(2)
Whispered	378	(1)
The Last Poem	379	(1)
Paul Celan (1920--1970)	379	(4)
Night Ray	380	(1)
Death Fugue	380	(2)
There Was Earth Inside Them	382	(1)
I Hear That the Axe Has Flowered	382	(1)
A Leaf	383	(1)
Tadeusz Borowski (1922--1951)	383	(2)
The Sun of Auschwitz	383	(1)
Two Countries	384	(1)
Project: Flag	385	(1)
Dan Pagis (1930--1986)	385	(3)
Autobiography	385	(1)
A Lesson in Observation	386	(1)
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car	387	(1)
Draft of a Reparations Agreement	387	(1)
Edith Bruck (1932-- )	388	(3)
Childhood	388	(1)
Pretty Soon	389	(1)
Equality, Father	389	(2)
Irena Klepfisz (1941-- )	391	(14)
Bashert	391	(14)
Repression In Eastern And Central Europe (1945--1991)	405	(82)
Tudor Arghenzi (1880--1967)	408	(2)
Testament	408	(2)
Psalm	410	(1)
Aleksander Wat (1900--1967)	410	(3)
Before Breughel the Elder	411	(1)
To Be a Mouse	412	(1)
From Persian Parables	412	(1)
Imagerie d'Epinal	413	(1)
Vitezslav Nezval (1900--1958)	413	(6)
Walker in Prague	414	(2)
The Lilac by the Museum on St. Wenceslas Square	416	(1)
Prague in the Midday Sun	416	(2)
Moon over Prague	418	(1)
Jaroslav Seifert (1901--1986)	419	(2)
The Candlestick	419	(1)
Never Again	420	(1)
Vladimir Holan (1905--1980)	421	(5)
In the Yard of the Policlinic	422	(2)
Children at Christmas in 1945	424	(1)
To the Enemies	424	(2)
Resurrection	426	(1)
Peter Huchel (1903--1981)	426	(3)
Landscape Beyond Warsaw	427	(1)
Roads	427	(1)
The Garden of Theophrastus	428	(1)
Psalm	429	(1)
Attila Jozsef (1905--1937)	429	(5)
Attila Jozsef	430	(1)
To Sit, to Stand, to Kill, to Die	431	(1)
The Seventh	432	(1)
Freight Trains	433	(1)
Ondra Lysohorsky (1905--1989)	434	(3)
22.6.1941	435	(1)
At a Sunlit Window	435	(1)
Ballad of Jan Palach, Student and Heretic	436	(1)
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-- )	437	(6)
Dedication	437	(1)
A Task	438	(1)
Child of Europe	439	(3)
On Angels	442	(1)
Johannes Bobrowski (1917--1965)	443	(5)
Kaunas 1941	443	(2)
Pruzzian Elegy	445	(1)
Latvian Songs	446	(1)
Elderblossom	447	(1)
Tadeusz Rozewicz (1921-- )	448	(3)
Massacre of the Boys	448	(1)
Pigtail	449	(1)
What Happens	449	(1)
Questions about Poetry since Auschwitz	450	(1)
Ion Caraion (1923--1986)	451	(4)
Song from the Occupation Time	452	(1)
Remember	453	(1)
The Enveloping Echo	453	(1)
Tomorrow the Past Comes	454	(1)
Ultimate Argument	454	(1)
Wislawa Szymborska (1923-- )	455	(5)
The Terrorist, He Watches	455	(1)
Still	456	(1)
Children of the Epoch	457	(1)
Any Case	458	(1)
Hunger Camp at Jaslo	459	(1)
Once we knew the world well	460	(1)
Zbigniew Herbert (1924-- )	460	(6)
What I Saw	461	(1)
Report from the Besieged City	462	(2)
Painter	464	(1)
The Wall	464	(1)
The Trial	464	(2)
Nina Cassian (1924-- )	466	(1)
Temptation	466	(1)
Vowel	467	(1)
Horst Bienek (1930-- )	467	(6)
Vorkuta	467	(1)
Exodus	468	(1)
Resistance	469	(3)
Our Ashes	472	(1)
Sarah Kirsch (1935-- )	473	(4)
Legend of Lilja	474	(2)
Pictures	476	(1)
Mail	477	(1)
Gojko Djogo (1940-- )	477	(2)
The National Hero	477	(1)
The Wooden Handle	478	(1)
The Black Sheep	479	(1)
Stanislaw Baranczak (1946-- )	479	(3)
If China	480	(1)
December 14, 1979: A Poetry Reading	480	(1)
February 8, 1980: And No One Has Warned Me	481	(1)
Tomasz Jastrun (1950-- )	482	(2)
The Seed	482	(1)
The Polish Knot	483	(1)
Scrap	483	(1)
Hat	484	(1)
Jan Polkowski (1953-- )	484	(3)
The world is only air	484	(1)
I Don't Know That Man	485	(1)
Noli Me Tangere	485	(2)
War And Dictatorship In The Mediterranean (1900--1991)	487	(34)
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863--1933)	490	(2)
Waiting for the Barbarians	490	(1)
The City	491	(1)
George Seferis (1900--1971)	492	(6)
A Word for Summer	492	(2)
The Last Day	494	(1)
Our Sun	495	(1)
Last Stop	495	(3)
Nazim Hikmet (1902--1963)	498	(11)
Letters from a Man in Solitary	498	(3)
Since I Was Thrown Inside	501	(3)
Things I Didn't Know I Loved	504	(3)
The Evening Walk	507	(2)
Yannis Ritsos (1909-- )	509	(4)
Unanswered	509	(1)
Underneath Oblivion	510	(1)
Audible and Inaudible	510	(1)
Afternoon	510	(1)
The Missing	511	(1)
After the Defeat	512	(1)
Not Even Mythology	513	(1)
Odysseas Elytis (1911--1991)	513	(8)
Anniversary	513	(2)
The March toward the Front	515	(2)
The Autopsy	517	(1)
The Sleep of the Brave	518	(3)
The Indo-Pakistani Wars (1947--1972)	521	(8)
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911--1984)	523	(6)
Once Again the Mind	524	(1)
No Sign of Blood	524	(1)
The Tyrant	525	(1)
A Prison Daybreak	526	(3)
War In The Middle East (1948--1991)	529	(38)
Edmond Jabes (1912--1991)	532	(4)
The Beginning of the Book	533	(1)
The Book	533	(1)
The Desert	534	(1)
Notebook, II	535	(1)
The Desert, II	535	(1)
Fadwa Tuquan (1917-- )	536	(6)
Face Lost in the Wilderness	537	(2)
After Twenty Years	539	(1)
I Won't Sell His Love	539	(1)
Behind Bars, Sel	540	(1)
Song of Becoming	541	(1)
Abba Kovner (1918--1987)	542	(6)
What's Not in the Heart	543	(1)
It's Late	544	(1)
Potato Pie	545	(3)
To Myself	548	(1)
Yehuda Amichai (1924-- )	548	(4)
Ibn Gabirol	549	(1)
Like Our Bodies' Imprint	549	(1)
God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children	550	(1)
Children	550	(1)
Two Songs of Peace	550	(1)
If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem	551	(1)
Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id) (1930-- )	552	(10)
The New Noah	553	(1)
Elegy for the Time at Hand	554	(7)
A Mirror for the Twentieth Century	561	(1)
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-- )	562	(5)
Earth Poem	562	(1)
We Travel Like Other People	563	(1)
Prison	564	(1)
Psalm 2	564	(3)
Repression And Revolution In Latin America (1900--1991)	567	(54)
Cesar Vallejo (1892--1937)	570	(3)
The Black Riders	571	(1)
The Rollcall of Bones	571	(1)
Have You Anything to Say in Your Defense?	572	(1)
Pablo Neruda (1904--1973)	573	(6)
The Dictators	574	(1)
America, I Do Not Call Your Name Without Hope	574	(1)
Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas	575	(3)
They Receive Instructions Against Chile	578	(1)
Nicanor Parra (1914-- )	579	(8)
Warnings	579	(1)
Inflation	579	(1)
Letters from the Poet Who Sleeps in a Chair	580	(4)
Sentences	584	(1)
Modern Times	584	(1)
Manifesto	585	(2)
Claribel Alegria (1924-- )	587	(5)
We Were Three	588	(1)
From the Bridge	589	(3)
Angel Cuadra (1931-- )	592	(3)
In Brief	593	(1)
Brief Letter to Donald Walsh (in memoriam)	594	(1)
Heberto Padilla (1932-- )	595	(9)
In Trying Times	596	(1)
Nuclear Umbrella	597	(5)
History	602	(1)
Sometimes I plunge into the ocean	602	(1)
Song of the Juggler	603	(1)
Roque Dalton (1935--1975)	604	(2)
My Neighbor	604	(1)
Love Poem	605	(1)
Otto Rene Castillo (1936--1967)	606	(7)
Before the Scales, Tomorrow	606	(1)
Apolitical Intellectuals	607	(2)
Distances	609	(4)
Ariel Dorfman (1942-- )	613	(4)
I Just Missed the Bus and I'll Be Late for Work	613	(1)
Last Waltz in Santiago	614	(1)
Vocabulary	615	(2)
Teresa de Jesus	617	(4)
Proverbs	617	(1)
Curfew	618	(1)
The Flag of Chile	619	(2)
The Struggle For Civil Rights And Civil Liberties In The United States (1900--1991)	621	(56)
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)	625	(6)
Letter to the Academy	625	(1)
Madrid---1937	626	(2)
Let America Be America Again	628	(3)
Richard Wright (1908--1960)	631	(4)
I Have Seen Black Hands	631	(2)
Between the World and Me	633	(2)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980)	635	(9)
Breaking Open	635	(9)
Thomas McGrath (1916--1990)	644	(10)
Nocturne Militaire	645	(1)
Blues for Warren	646	(6)
Go Ask the Dead	652	(1)
Fresco: Departure for an Imperialist War	653	(1)
The End of the World	654	(1)
Daniel Berrigan (1921-- )	654	(2)
My Name	655	(1)
Prayer	655	(1)
Rehabilitative Report: We Can Still Laugh	656	(1)
Galway Kinnell (1927-- )	656	(4)
Another Night in the Ruins	657	(1)
Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond	658	(2)
Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (1934-- )	660	(3)
Incident	660	(1)
Balboa, the Entertainer	661	(1)
Political Poem	662	(1)
Quincy Troupe (1943-- )	663	(4)
Poem for My Father	663	(2)
Boomerang: A Blatantly Political Poem	665	(2)
Ray A. Young Bear (1950-- )	667	(5)
The Song Taught to Joseph	667	(1)
From the Spotted Night	668	(1)
A Drive to Lone Ranger	669	(3)
Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952-- )	672	(5)
Immigrants in Our Own Land	672	(2)
Like an Animal	674	(1)
How We Carry Ourselves	675	(1)
Oppression	676	(1)
War In Korea And Vietnam (1945--1979)	677	(36)
Etheridge Knight (1931--1991)	681	(4)
The Idea of Ancestry	681	(1)
A Poem for Myself	682	(1)
To Make a Poem in Prison	683	(1)
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	684	(1)
Walter McDonald (1934-- )	685	(3)
The Children of Saigon	685	(1)
Christmas Bells, Saigon	686	(1)
The Last Still Days in a Bunker	687	(1)
John Balaban (1943-- )	688	(3)
The Guard at the Binh Thuy Bridge	688	(1)
News Update	689	(1)
For the Missing in Action	690	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-- )	691	(3)
Starlight Scope Myopia	691	(1)
After the Fall of Saigon	692	(1)
Boat People	693	(1)
George Evans (1948-- )	694	(9)
Revelation in the Mother Lode	695	(1)
Eye Blade	696	(7)
Bruce Weigl (1949-- )	703	(5)
Burning Shit at An Khe	703	(2)
The Way of Tet	705	(1)
The Last Lie	706	(1)
Her Life Runs Like a Red Silk Flag	706	(2)
James Fenton (1949-- )	708	(5)
Cambodia	708	(1)
Dead Soldiers	708	(2)
Lines for Translation into Any Language	710	(3)
Repression in Africa and the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa (1900--1991)	713	(38)
Es'kia Mphahlele (1919-- )	716	(4)
A Poem	717	(1)
Homeward Bound	718	(2)
Dennis Brutus (1924-- )	720	(4)
On the Island	720	(1)
from Poems About Prison	721	(2)
Under House Arrest	723	(1)
Prayer	723	(1)
Sipho Sepamla (1932-- )	724	(7)
The Odyssey	724	(2)
Measure for Measure	726	(1)
Silence: 2	727	(1)
I Remember Sharpeville	728	(2)
The Law That Says	730	(1)
Wole Soyinka (1934-- )	731	(4)
I Think It Rains	731	(1)
Harvest of Hate	732	(1)
Massacre, October'66	733	(1)
Civilian and Soldier	734	(1)
Breyten Breytenbach (1939-- )	735	(9)
Dar es-Salaam: Harbour of Peace	735	(2)
Exile, Representative	737	(1)
Journey	738	(4)
First Prayer for the Hottentotsgod	742	(1)
The Struggle for the Taal	742	(2)
Jack Mapanje (1944-- )	744	(2)
After Wiriyamu Village Massacre by Portuguese	744	(1)
On His Royal Blindness Paramount Chief Kwangala	745	(1)
On Being Asked to Write a Poem for 1979	746	(1)
Jeremy Cronin (1949-- )	746	(5)
The Naval Base (Part III)	746	(1)
Motho Ke Motho Ka Batho Babang (A Person Is a Person Because of Other People)	747	(1)
Group Photo from Pretoria Local on the Occasion of a Fourth Anniversary (Never Taken)	748	(3)
Revolutions and the Struggle for Democracy in China (1911--1991)	751	(12)
Bei Dao (1949-- )	754	(6)
The Answer	754	(1)
Stretch out your hands to me	755	(1)
An End or a Beginning	756	(2)
Resume	758	(1)
Accomplices	759	(1)
Duoduo (1951-- )	760	(3)
from Thoughts and Recollections	760	(1)
Wishful Thinking Is the Master of Reality	761	(1)
At Parting	761	(1)
Untitled	761	(1)
Looking Out from Death	762	(1)
Selected Bibliography	763	(22)
Permissions	785	(14)
Index	799