• Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit (B)
• One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each (the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) (B+)
  
  
• ANDRADE, Mário de: Hallucinated City (B+)
• ʿANTARAH ibn Shaddād: War Songs (B)
• AXELSSON, Linnea: Ædnan (B)
• BECCADELLI, Antonio: The Hermaphrodite (B)
• BERNHARD, Thomas: In Hora Mortis - Under the Iron of the Moon (A-)
• BHARATCHANDRA Ray: In Praise of Annada (B)
• BHARAVI: Arjuna and the Hunter (A-)
• BOBE, T.O.: Curl (B)
• BOLAÑO, Roberto:
  • The Romantic Dogs (B+)
  • Tres (B+)
  • The Unknown University (B+)
• BRAUN, Volker:
  • Auf die schönen Possen (B+)
  • Lustgarten, Preußen (A-)
  • Rubble Flora (B+)
• BREYTENBACH, Breyten: Voice Over (A-)
• CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de: The Lusíads (B+)
• CARRERA ANDRADE, Jorge: Micrograms (B)
• CARSON, Anne: Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (A-)
• CELAN, Paul: Romanian Poems (B+)
• CHRISTENSEN, Inger: alphabet (B+)
• CLAUS, Hugo:
  • Even Now (B+)
  • Greetings (B+)
• DIB, Mohammed: L.A. Trip (B)
• DURCAN, Paul:
  • Christmas Day (B+)
  • Greetings to our Friends in Brazil (A-)
  • A Snail in my Prime (A-)
• ELYTIS, Odysseas: The Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow (-)
• ÉTIENNE, Marie: King of a Hundred Horsemen (B-)
• FITZGERALD, Edward: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (A)
• FORTE, Frédéric: Minute-Operas (B+)
• GAUDÉ, Laurent: Our Europe (B)
• GIRONDO, Oliverio: Decals (B)
• GÓNGORA, Luís de: The Solitudes (-)
• GORGANI, Fakhraddin: Vis and Ramin (A-)
• GRAY, Alasdair:
  • See the complete review's Alasdair Gray page
  • Old Negatives (B+)
• GRÜNBEIN, Durs:
  • See the complete review's Durs Grünbein page
  • Ashes for Breakfast (B)
  • Erklärte Nacht (B+)
  • Grauzone morgens (B+)
  • Porzellan (B+)
  • Schädelbasislektion (A-)
  • Den Teuren Toten (B+)
  • Vom Schnee (B+)
• GUSTAFSSON, Lars:
  • Elegies (B+)
  • The Stillness of the World before Bach (B+)
• HERBERT, Zbigniew :
  • See the complete review's Zbigniew Herbert page
  • Elegy for the Departure (B+)
  • Mr Cogito (A+)
  • Reconstruction of the Poet (B+)
  • Report from the Besieged City (A)
• HILL, Geoffrey :
  • See the complete review's Geoffrey Hill page
  • The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin (A-)
  • Canaan (B)
  • For the Unfallen (B-)
  • King Log (B+)
  • Mercian Hymns (B)
  • The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy (B+)
  • New and Collected Poems (B)
  • The Orchards of Syon (B)
  • Speech ! Speech ! (B+)
  • Tenebrae (B-)
  • A Treatise of Civil Power (B+)
  • The Triumph of Love (B+)
  • Without Title (B+)
• HOFMANN, Michael: Approximately Nowhere (B)
• HOLUB, Miroslav:
  • See the complete review's Miroslav Holub page
  • Interferon, or On Theater (A-)
  • Poems: Before & After (A+)
  • The Rampage (A-)
  • Supposed to Fly (B)
  • Vanishing Lung Syndrome (A)
• JONES, David:
  • The Anathemata (A-)
  • In Parenthesis (A)
• KALIDASA:
  • The Birth of Kumára (B+)
  • The Lineage of the Raghus (B+)
  • Meghaduta:
    • as The Cloud-Messenger (trans. Arthur W. Ryder) (B)
    • as The Cloud Messenger (trans. F. and E.Edgerton) (B)
    • as The Transport of Love (trans. Leonard Nathan) (B)
• KEATING, H.R.F.: Jack, the Lady Killer (C+)
• KHAYYAM, Omar:
  • The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (trans.: Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs) (B-)
  • The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (trans.: Edward FitzGerald) (A)
• KO Un:
  • The Three Way Tavern (B+)
  • Traveler Maps (B+)
• KOLÁŘ, Jiří: A User's Manual (B+)
• KRASICKI, Ignacy: The Mouseiad (B+)
• KUNENE, Mazisi: Emperor Shaka the Great (B+)
• LASSAQUE, Aurélia: Solstice and Other Poems (B)
• LEITHAUSER, Brad: Darlington's Fall (A-)
• LEWIS, Wyndham: One-Way Song (B+)
• LIGHTMAN, Alan: Song of Two Worlds (B)
• LLESHANAKU, Luljeta: Fresco (B)
• MADANI, Rachida: Tales of a Severed Head (B)
• MAGHA: The Killing of Shishupala (B+)
• MAILER, Norman: Deaths for the Ladies (and other disasters) (C)
• MARKSON, David: Collected Poems (B)
• MARTINSON, Harry: Aniara (B)
• MAXWELL, Glyn:
  • The Breakage (B)
  • Time's Fool (B+)
• MEISTER, Ernst: In Time's Rift (B+)
• MIR: Zikr-i Mir (B-)
• MONK, Ian:
  • Family Archaeology (B)
  • Writings for the Oulipo (B+)
• MULISCH, Harry:
  • See the complete review's Harry Mulisch page
  • What Poetry Is (B)
• MULDOON, Paul:
  • See the complete review's Paul Muldoon page
  • The Annals of Chile (B+)
  • Hay (B+)
  • Madoc (A-)
  • Meeting the British (B+)
  • Moy Sand and Gravel (B+)
  • Mules (B+)
  • New Weather (B)
  • Poems 1968-1998 (A-)
  • The Prince of the Quotidian (B+)
  • Quoof (B+)
  • Why Brownlee Left (B+)
• MURRAY, Les:
  • See the complete review's Les Murray page
  • The Biplane Houses (B+)
  • The Boys who Stole the Funeral (B+)
  • Conscious and Verbal (B)
  • Fredy Neptune (A)
  • Killing the Black Dog (B+)
  • Learning Human (A-)
  • Poems the Size of Photographs (A-)
  • The Quality of Sprawl (B+)
  • Taller when Prone (B)
  • Translations from the Natural World (A-)
• MUTIS, Álvaro: Maqroll's Prayer (B+)
• NAUM, Gellu: My Tired Father (B-)
• NEZVAL, Vítězslav: The Absolute Gravedigger (B)
• NGUGI wa Thiong'o: The Perfect Nine (B+)
• NGUYỄN Du: The Song of Kiều (A-)
• NIZAMI:
  • Haft Paykar (B)
  • Layli and Majnun (B)
  • Sikandar Nama, e bara (A-)
• NOOTEBOOM, Cees: The Captain of the Butterflies (B+)
• OKIGBO, Christopher: Labyrinths (B+)
• OZ, Amos: The Same Sea (A)
• PADEL, Ruth: Darwin (B+)
• PARRA, Nicanor: Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Great (B+)
• PASTIOR, Oskar: o du roher iasmin (-)
• PAZ, Octavio: A Tale of Two Gardens (B+)
• p'BITEK, Okot:
  • The Defence of Lawino (B) (tr. Taban lo Liyong)
  • Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol (B+)
• PEDDANA, Allasani: The Story of Manu (B+)
• PORTER, Dorothy: Akhenaten (B)
• QĀ'EM-MAQĀMI, Ālam-Tāj: Mirror of Dew (B+)
• QUINTUS Smyrnaeus: Posthomerica (B+)
• RAGHAVANKA: The Life of Harishchandra (B+)
• RANSMAYR, Christoph: The Flying Mountain (A-)
• RILKE, Rainer Maria: Duino Elegies -- see: Reading Rilke (B+), William H. GASS
• RÓŻEWICZ, Tadeusz: Mother Departs (B+)
• ROUBAUD, Jacques:
  • The Form of a City Changes Faster, alas, than the Human Heart (A-)
  • The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis (B)
  • Some Thing Black (B+)
• RUBY, Ryan: Context Collapse (B+) -- A Poem Containing a History of Poetry
• RYBAKOVA, Maria: Gnedich (B+)
• SACHS, Nelly: Flight and Metamorphosis (B)
• SAITO Sanki: The Kobe Hotel (B)
• SCHNACKENBERG, Gjertrud:
  • A Gilded Lapse of Time (B+)
  • Heavenly Questions (B+)
  • The Lamplit Answer (B+)
  • Portraits and Elegies (B)
  • Supernatural Love (B+)
  • The Throne of Labdacus (B+)
• SCHOLEM, Gershom: Greetings From Angelus (B)
• al-SHWĒʿIR, Ḥmēdān: Arabian Satire (B)
• SEBALD, W.G.: Unrecounted (-)
• SINCLAIR, Iain:
  • See the complete review's Iain Sinclair page
  • Lud Heat (B-)
  • Suicide Bridge (B)
• SONNEVI, Göran: Mozart's Third Brain (B+)
• SPARK, Muriel: All the Poems of Muriel Spark (B+)
• SPONDE, Jean de: Sonnets of Love & Death (B-)
• TABAN Lo Liyong:
  • Another Nigger Dead (B)
  • The Cows of Shambat (B)
• TASSO, Torquato:
  • Jerusalem Delivered (trans.: Edward Fairfax) (A-)
  • Jerusalem Delivered (trans.: Anthony M. Esolen) (B+)
• TAVARES, Gonçalo M.: A Voyage to India (B+)
• TZETZES, John: Allegories of the Iliad (-)
• UNGARETTI, Giuseppe: Allegria (B+)
• URSU, Liliana: Angel Riding a Beast (B)
• VALLEJO, César: The Complete Poetry (A-)
• VERMA, Shrikant: Magadh (B+)
• WALDROP, Rosmarie: Blindsight (B)
• WAT, Aleksander: Mediterranean Poems (A-)
• WEINBERGER, Eliot: 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (A)
• WEISS, Daniel Evan: Honk if you love Aphrodite (A-)
• ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam: Canvas (B+)
• ZHADAN, Serhiy: What We Live For, What We Die For (B)

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