The Other voice : twentieth-century women's poetry in translation /
This book brings together in contemporary English verse translations poems by some seventy women who live or have lived in thirty-seven countries. They come from Eastern and Western Europe, from the Middle and Far East, from islands in the South Pacific, from South America, the Caribbean, French Can...
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New York :
Norton,
[1976]
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Table of Contents:
- Eve / Anne Hebert
- On myself I / Leah Goldberg
- This thing only / Anna Rydstedt-Dannstedt
- Sonnet to Eurydice / Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
- To Julia de Burgos / Julia de Bugos
- I've never got anything / Gloria Fuertes
- Now / Gloria Fuertes
- Women songs I / Kadia Molodowsky
- Years / Anna Margolin
- It may be / Alfonsina Storni
- A window / Forugh Farrokhzad
- [My father has big skin like a soldier's cape] / Venus Khoury
- To my father / Blaga Dmitrova
- Ladybird (a memory of my mother) / Ingrid Jonker
- Self portrait 1 / Tove Ditlevsen
- Self portrait 2 / Tove Ditlevsen
- Mechanical doll / Forugh Farrokhzad
- Portrait / Dahlia Ravikovitch
- Moir hatching / Nuala ni Dhomhnaill
- The kiwi bird / Nina Cassian
- A sword / Karin Boye
- Song for a young girl's puberty ceremony / Anonymous (Papago)
- Song for a girl on her first menstruation / Anonymous (Boikin)
- Pregnant woman / Ingrid Jonker
- Song of a woman in labor / Anonymous (Papago)
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- From behind bars I / Fadwa Tuqan
- The white and the black / Caroline N.M. Khaketla
- Sister / Gabriela Mistral
- Elegy for a woman of no importance Nazik al-Mala'ikah
- The Marina poems / Lucha Corpi
- Stranger / Gabriela Mistral
- Exile / Saniya Salih
- The enemy's testament / Etel Adnan
- Songs that cannot be silenced / Hien Luong
- Harvesting wheat for the public share / Li Chu
- [In the bird scream and whistle] / Natalya Gorbanevskaya
- The Shulamite / Else Lasker-Schuler
- Illumination, from Random thoughts on the love of God / Simone Weil
- Receiving Buddha / Ping-hsin
- Landing / Antonia Pozzi
- Dog and sea / Alfonsina Storni
- White bears / Veronica Porumbacu
- In the blue distance, But look / Nelly Sachs
- Diogenes / Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke
- The death of Moses / Margit Szecsi
- How Hong Kong was destroyed / Dahlia Ravikovitch
- from Cambrian, A suite about the sea and the animals / Eeva-Liisa Manner
- from The third house / Amy Karolyi
- Ikhnaton's night / Agnes Nemes Nagy
- Love/ Edith Sodergran
- [And there is nothing at all
- neither fear] / Natalya Gorbanevskaya
- a woman's song, about men / Anonymous (Eskimo)
- Brief landing / Sarah Kirsch
- Wedding / Maria Banus
- from Poem of the end / Marina Tsvetayeva
- Wisdom has broken my arms / Anne Hebert
- The breadwinner / Amrita Pritam
- The marital problem I / Sonja Akesson
- Divorce I / Tove Ditlevsen
- Divorce 3 / Tove Ditlevsen
- from Epitaph / Marina Tsvetayeva
- Sister, The second wife, The abandoned / Mririda n'Ait Attik
- Goddam the empty sky / Violeta Parra
- Listen / Sophia de Mello Brener Andresen
- Spring in the woods, [a veil where], [to wake in a], Matinal / Marguerite Clerbout
- Autumn, Silence / Bella Akhmadulina
- Water without sound, Leaves, Spoil / Malka Heifetz Tussman
- [The cricket sings on Twelfth-night] / Natalya Gorbanevskaya
- Last brightness, Illuminations 2 / Leah Goldberg
- Tonight / Ada Negri
- Poem / Teresa Torres
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- Our voice / Noemia da Sousa
- Far from the beach / Alda do Espirito Santo
- Proportion poetry / Majken Johansson
- Change of scene / Ellen Warwond
- [Of course] / Nadia Tueni
- Dark stream / Ingrid Jonker
- Night, Landscape / Anne Hebert
- [The skin like burnt glass or], [Do not think I give any importance], [Noon goes over the withered earth], [The tree has crashed down in the backyard], [Some wine. A bed. Separation from the sounds of the day] / Eeva-Liisa Manner
- Awakening / Antonia Pozzi
- With a ring / Veronica Porumbacu
- Maturity / Isabelle Vukovic
- Pride / Dahlia Ravikovith
- Canzonetta / Antonia Pozzi
- from Tangled hair: Selected Tanka / Yosano Akiko
- Written in the sunset / Hsiung-hung
- from Multitudinous stars and spring waters / Ping -hsin
- Song of a girl journeying to the country of the dead / Anonymous (Trobriand Islands)
- from Requiem 1935-1940 / Anna Akhmatova
- Before the sun rises / Sarah Kirsch
- A man / Nina Cassian
- I feel sorry for the garden / Forugh Farrokhzad
- The drought / Cheng Min
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- Song for bringing a child into the world / Anonymous (Seminole)
- the choice / Anonymous (Ten'a)
- The first shoe / Maire Mhac an tSaoi
- I have the right / Ana Blandiana
- Ballad of the ten casino dancers / Cecilia Meireles
- Clockwork doll / Dahlia Ravikovitch
- Song of the old woman / Anonymous (Eskimo)
- The voices of Eden / Else Lasker-Schuler
- We shall not escape hell / Marina Tsvetayeva
- A love song / Else Lasker-Schuler
- [Desire makes you] / Ann Smith
- [This evening] / Nadia Tueni
- Secret / Maria Teresa Horta
- From Return to Frankfurt / Marie Luise Kaschnitz
- Love charm songs / Anonymous (Chippewa)
- My love has departed / Anonymous (Chippewa)
- Why should I be jealous / Anonymous (Chippewa)
- When I think of him / Anonymous (Chippewa)
- I'm taking off ... / Barbro Backberger
- Time of waiting in Amsterdam / Ingrid Jonker
- Poem / Celia Dropkin
- [Our walls were thick] / Venus Khoury
- [Backed up against time] / Venus Khoury
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- [I discover you in bits and pieces] / Odette Aslan