Preface | p. xvii |
Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
Phonetic Equivalents | p. xxv |
Map: the World Ca. 1913 | p. 1572 |
Map: the World Today, a Western View | p. 1574 |
Map: the World Today, an Eastern View | p. 1576 |
The Modern World: Self and Other in Global Context | p. 1579 |
Time Line | p. 1600 |
The Night Chant (Navajo, ca. 1897-1902) | p. 1607 |
Prayer to Thunder | p. 1608 |
Finishing Song | p. 1611 |
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | p. 1611 |
From "Dora" (German) | p. 1615 |
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) | p. 1671 |
From Gitanjali (Bengali) | p. 1674 |
[The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day] | p. 1674 |
[Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high] | p. 1674 |
[Deliverance is not for me in renunciation] | p. 1675 |
From The Crescent Moon (Bengali) | p. 1675 |
On the Seashore | p. 1675 |
From The Gardener (Bengali) | p. 1676 |
[At midnight the would-be ascetic announced] | p. 1676 |
[Sudas, the gardener, plucked from his tank ...] | p. 1676 |
From Sonar Tari (Bengali) | p. 1677 |
I Won't Let You Go | p. 1677 |
The Golden Boat | p. 1681 |
From Kalpana (Bengali) | p. 1681 |
A Stressful Time | p. 1681 |
Zuni Ritual Poetry (Zuni) | p. 2031 |
From A Prayer at the Winter Solstice | p. 2033 |
From The Scalp Dance | p. 2033 |
From Shalako | p. 2034 |
From Sayatasha's Night Chant | p. 2034 |
House Blessing | p. 2034 |
Dismissal of the Koyemshi | p. 2035 |
Inuit Songs | p. 2036 |
Orpingalik (flourished 1923) | p. 2038 |
My Breath (Inuit-Inupiaq) | p. 2038 |
Uvlunuaq (flourished 1923) | p. 2040 |
Song of a Mother (Inuit-Inupiaq) | p. 2040 |
Netsit (flourished 1923) | p. 2041 |
Dead Man's Song (Inuit-Inupiaq) | p. 2041 |
Uvavnuk (died before 1921) | p. 2043 |
The Great Sea (Inuit-Inupiaq) | p. 2043 |
Kibkarjuk (flourished 1922) | p. 2043 |
Song of the Rejected Woman (Inuit-Inupiaq) | p. 2043 |
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) | p. 2044 |
In Praise of Shadows (Japanese) | p. 2049 |
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) | p. 2071 |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | p. 2075 |
The Waste Land | p. 2079 |
The Burial of the Dead | p. 2079 |
A Game of Chess | p. 2081 |
The Fire Sermon | p. 2084 |
Death by Water | p. 2088 |
What the Thunder Said | p. 2088 |
From Four Quartets | p. 2091 |
Little Gidding | p. 2091 |
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) | p. 2098 |
Requiem (Russian) | p. 2102 |
Dada-Surrealist Poetry: a Selection | p. 2109 |
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) | p. 2112 |
From Dada Manifesto 1918 (French) | p. 2112 |
Dada Disgust | p. 2112 |
Proclamation Without Pretension (French) | p. 2113 |
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) | p. 2114 |
Anna Blume (German) | p. 2114 |
Paul Eluard (1895-1952) | p. 2115 |
Woman in Love (French) | p. 2115 |
To Be Caught in One's Own Trap (French) | p. 2115 |
[Nature was caught in the nets of your life] (French) | p. 2115 |
[She is always unwilling to understand, to listen] (French) | p. 2116 |
[Unknown, she was my favorite shape] (French) | p. 2116 |
The Mirror of a Moment (French) | p. 2116 |
Andre Breton (1896-1966) | p. 2116 |
Free Union (French) | p. 2116 |
Vigilance (French) | p. 2118 |
Aime Cesaire (born 1913) | p. 2119 |
Do Not Have Pity (French) | p. 2119 |
Sun Serpent (French) | p. 2119 |
Day and Night (French) | p. 2119 |
Joyce Mansour (1928-1987) | p. 2120 |
[I saw you through my closed eye] (French) | p. 2120 |
[I opened your head] (French) | p. 2120 |
[Men's vices] (French) | p. 2120 |
[Empty black haunted house] (French) | p. 2121 |
Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938) | p. 2121 |
[Poems] (Spanish) | p. 2123 |
Squares and Angles | p. 2123 |
You Want Me White | p. 2124 |
Little-Bitty Man | p. 2125 |
Ancestral Burden | p. 2125 |
The World of Seven Wells | p. 2126 |
Portrait of Garcia Lorca | p. 2127 |
Departure | p. 2129 |
William Faulkner (1897-1962) | p. 2130 |
From Go Down, Moses | p. 2136 |
The Bear | p. 2136 |
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) | p. 2208 |
The Good Woman of Setzuan (German) | p. 2213 |
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) | p. 2267 |
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (Spanish) | p. 2271 |
From Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias | p. 2277 |
Tawfiq Al-Hakim (1898-1989) | p. 2277 |
The Sultan's Dilemma (Arabic) | p. 2282 |
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) | p. 2337 |
Snow Country (Japanese) | p. 2342 |
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1989) | p. 2411 |
The Garden of Forking Paths (Spanish) | p. 2414 |
Andrew Peynetsa (1904?-1976) | p. 2421 |
The Boy and the Deer (Zuni) | p. 2423 |
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) | p. 2438 |
[Poems] (Spanish) | p. 2442 |
Tonight I Can Write ... | p. 2442 |
Walking Around | p. 2443 |
I'm Explaining a Few Things | p. 2444 |
Canto General | p. 2446 |
From The Heights of Macchu Picchu | p. 2446 |
Ode to the Tomato | p. 2453 |
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) | p. 2455 |
Endgame (French) | p. 2459 |
Birago Diop (1906-1992) | p. 2487 |
The Bone (French) | p. 2491 |
Mother Crocodile (French) | p. 2497 |
Leopold Sedar Senghor (born 1906) | p. 2502 |
[Poems] (French) | p. 2506 |
Letter to a Poet | p. 2506 |
Night in Sine | p. 2507 |
Black Woman | p. 2507 |
Prayer to the Masks | p. 2508 |
Letter to a Prisoner | p. 2509 |
The Kaya-Magan | p. 2510 |
To New York | p. 2512 |
Songs for Signare | p. 2513 |
Elegy of the Circumcised | p. 2514 |
Richard Wright (1908-1960) | p. 2515 |
The Man Who Was Almost a Man | p. 2518 |
Naguib Mahfouz (born 1911) | p. 2527 |
Zaabalawi (Arabic) | p. 2531 |
Aime Cesaire (born 1913) | p. 2539 |
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (French) | p. 2543 |
Albert Camus (1913-1960) | p. 2570 |
The Guest (French) | p. 2574 |
Kojima Nobuo (born 1915) | p. 2583 |
The American School (Japanese) | p. 2585 |
Bernard Dadie (born 1916) | p. 2607 |
The Mirror of Dearth (French) | p. 2608 |
The Black Cloth (French) | p. 2613 |
The Hunter and the Boa (French) | p. 2616 |
Juan Rulfo (1918-1986) | p. 2621 |
Pedro Paramo (Spanish) | p. 2625 |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (born 1918) | p. 2692 |
Matryona's Home (Russian) | p. 2696 |
Guinea Woman | p. 3135 |
"I Shall Light a Candle of Understanding in Thine Heart ..." | p. 3136 |
Heartease II | p. 3136 |
The Pictures of My New Day | p. 3138 |
Heartease New England 1987 | p. 3138 |
Mother the Great Stones Got to Move | p. 3140 |
Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948) | p. 3141 |
Yellow Woman | p. 3144 |
A Note on Translation | p. 1 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 13 |
Index | p. 17 |
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