The Golden Ecco Anthology [Paperback]

The first in a new series of highly individualized collections of classic poetry, a literary anthology is compiled by the 1990 poet laureate of the United States.

A gathering of the best European and South American poets and fabulists,Another Republic is superbly translated by outstanding British and American writers. Ranging from such acknowledged masters as Henri Michaux and Francis Ponge to such unjustly neglected figures a Johannes Bobrowski and Fernando Pessoa, the anthology is comprehensive, audacious and unlike any other. The selections are ample enough to give the reader a clear idea of each poet's vision, and, together provide the reader with the foreign sources of what is most vital. Charles Simic and Mark Strand, two of America's finest poets, have chosen writers who have avoided making the predictable choices of over-anthologized poets whose reputations, the editors believe, are disproportionate to their influence.aThis is an anthology in which discoveries will be made, in which there are poems and fables that will astonish and delight. It is also an anthology which, because of its clearly polemical nature, will stimulate controversy.aaPoets included are Francis Ponge, Czeslaw Milosz, Henri Michaux, Nicanor Parra, Jean Follain, Johannes Bobrowski, Zbigniew Herbert, Paul Celan, Julio Cort?zar, Miroslav Holub, Fernando Pessoa, Yannis Ritsos, Octavio Paz, Vasko Popa, Yehuda Amichai, Italo Calvino, Carlos Drummond de Andrade.