Collects poems from one hundred poets from the past century, including pieces from W.H. Auden, Federico Garcâia Lorca, and Maria Rilke.

Includes index.

Northern elegies / Anna Akhmatova -- Buster Keaton looks in the woods for his love who is a real cow / Rafael Alberti -- We have done our duty / Yehuda Amichai -- The city limits / A.R. Ammons -- Residue / Carlos Drummond De Andrade -- Ode to the bourgeois gentleman / Mário De Andrade -- Fatness / Alan Ansen -- The pretty redhead / Guillaume Apollinaire -- Syringa / John Ashbery -- In memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden -- To the sun / Ingeborg Bachmann -- The moon and the night and the men / John Berryman -- In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop -- Evening in the sanitarium / Louise Bogan -- In praise of darkness / Jorge Luis Borges -- Waiting for the barbarians / C.P. Cavafy -- Death fugue / Paul Celan -- Menus / Blaise Cendrars -- Batouque / Aimé Césaire -- Poem on death / Inger Christensen -- Marine surface, low overcast / Amy Clampitt -- My grandmother's love letters / Hart Crane -- Mid-way / Robert Desnos -- The helmsman / H.D. -- On an East wind from the wars / Alan Dugan -- This place rumored to have been Sodom / Robert Duncan -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- The mad pomegranate tree / Odysseus Elytis -- An old man's winter night / Robert Frost -- Prayer / Gloria Fuertes -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- Lament / Thom Gunn -- The convergence of the Twain / Thomas Hardy -- At Mornington / Gwen Harwood -- Witch doctor / Robert Hayden -- More light! More light! / Anthony Hecht -- Mr. Cogito thinks about Hell / Zbigniew Herbert -- Things I didn't know I loved / Nazim Hikmet -- Translated from the German or the Bosnian / Max Jacob -- A prayer to go to paradise with the donkeys / Francis Jammes -- The deer lay down their bones / Robinson Jeffers -- Life draws a tree- / Roberto Juarroz -- Psalm and lament / Donald Justice -- One train may hide another / Kenneth Koch -- Next, please / Philip Larkin -- The ship of death / D.H. Lawrence -- The old man's monologue with death / Enrique Lihn -- The big mystical circus / Jorge De Lima -- The unfaithful married woman / Federico García Lorca -- My last afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow / Robert Lowell -- The broken home / James Merrill -- Vixen / W.S. Merwin -- I am writing to you from a far-off country / Henri Michaux -- The cameo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Encounter / Czeslaw Milosz -- Elegy for N.N. / Czeslaw Milosz -- The eel / Eugenio Montale -- The fish / Marianne Moore -- The absent / Edwin Muir -- Very like a whale / Ogden Nash -- Ode to the seagull / Pablo Neruda -- To the film industry in crisis / Frank O'Hara -- The undertaking in New Jersey / George Oppen -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen -- Ein Leben / Dan Pagis -- The tunnel / Nicanor Parra -- Winter night / Boris Pasternak -- Morning star / Cesare Pavese -- As one listens to the rain / Octavio Paz -- The tobacco shop / Fernando Pessoa (Álvaro de Campos) -- Water / Francis Ponge -- The little box / Vasko Popa -- Canto XLV / Ezra Pound -- Barbara / Jacques Prévert -- If you imagine / Raymond Queneau -- Tombs of the Hetaerae / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Miniature / Yannos Ritsos -- Dolor / Theodore Roethke -- In the middle of life / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- Epiphany, 1937 / George Seferis -- April inventory / W.D. Snodgrass -- A postcard from the volcano / Wallace Stevens -- That winter / Ruth Stone -- Rain and the tyrants / Jules Supervielle -- Question / May Swenson -- The end and the beginning / Wislawa Szymborska -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- Rain / Edward Thomas -- Track / Tomas Tranströmer -- An attempt at jealousy / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Rose nocturnal / Xavier Villaurrutia -- The season of phantasmal peace / Derek Walcott -- Lullaby: Moonlight lingers / Robert Penn Warren -- Advice to a prophet / Richard Wilbur -- These / William Carlos Williams -- The journey / James Wright -- I have seen black hands / Richard Wright -- In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz / William Butler Yeats -- That's how we are / Andrea Zanzotto -- "A"-11 / Louis Zukofsky.