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Tables of Contents for This Same Sky
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xii
House of Spring
5
4
Muso Soseki
WORDS AND SILENCES: ``Sawdust from under the Saw''
``Once I got a postcard from the Fiji Islands''
9
1
Jaan Kaplinski
Old Mountains Want to Turn to Sand
10
1
Tommy Olofsson
The Meaning of Simplicity
11
1
Yannis Ritsos
Poetry Was Like This
12
2
Al Mahmud
The Pen
14
1
Muhammad al-Ghuzzi
The Question Mark
14
1
Gevorg Emin
The Gatherer
15
1
Ali al-mak
Lizard
16
1
Bundgard Povlsen
Between Ebb and Flow
17
2
Fadwa Tuqan
Crowned Crane
19
1
A Tree Within
20
1
Octavio Paz
A Short Story
20
1
David Escobar Galindo
Life of the Cricket
21
1
Jorge Carrera Andrade
Coils the Robot
22
1
Floria Herrero Pinto
from Altazor
23
1
Vicente Huidobro
Paper Doll
24
1
Guadalupe Morfin
Distances of Longing
24
1
Fawziyya Abu Khalid
At the Beach
25
1
Kemal Ozer
Monkeys
26
1
Klara Koettner-Benigni
Freedom
27
1
Wimal Dissanayake
Lamento
28
1
Thomas Transtromer
Wordless Day
29
4
Chang Shiang-hua
DREAMS AND DREAMERS: ``Eyes the Color of Sky''
In the Kitchen
33
1
Jean Joubert
A Headstrong Boy
34
2
Gu Cheng
Wanting to Move
36
1
Vijaya Mukhopadhyay
The Cucumber
37
1
Nazim Hikmet
The Tin Bird
38
1
Ramon C. Sunico
On My Birthday
39
1
Farhad Mazhar
The Orphan
40
1
Mohammad al-Maghut
WilPeace
41
1
Yehuda Amichai
Healing
42
1
Yannis Ritsos
Happy as a Dos's Tail
42
1
Anna Swir
Picnic to the Earth
43
1
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Why There Are No Cats in the Forest
44
1
Simeon Dumdum Jr
Song
45
1
Cecilia Meireles
The Sick-Room
46
1
R. A. Simpson
The Shadow Inside Me
46
1
Tommy Olofsson
``One day I asked the mirror facing me''
47
1
Tialuga Sunia Seloti
The Prison Cell
48
2
Mohmud Darwish
A Sailor's Memoirs
50
2
Muhammad al-Fayiz
``Where is the heart I am calling?''
52
1
Roberto Juarroz
Day-Dream
52
1
Samarendra Sengupta
The Parakeets
53
1
Alberto Blanco
A Dream of Paradise in the Shadow of War
54
1
Muneer Niazi
Salt and Memory
55
1
Zoltan Zelk
My Great Grand Uncle
56
1
Tarapada Ray
Magic
57
4
Dahlia Ravikovitch
FAMILIES: ``The First Tying''
Wolf-Ancestry
61
1
Vasko Popa
To the Ancestprs
62
1
Childhood
63
1
Jean Joubert
Remembering
64
1
Xue Di
Sparrow
65
1
Transformations
65
1
Taduesz Rozewicz
Souvenir of the Ancient World
66
1
Carlos Drummond De Andrade
Industrial Childhood
67
1
Sharon Stevenson
I Was Born in jacinto Vera
68
1
Liber Falco
Weights
69
1
Les Murray
Small Wants
70
2
Bibhu Padhi
Believe It or Not
72
1
Nicolai Kantchev
Brownout
73
1
Tony Perez
Atong
74
1
Benilda S. Santos
Atong and His Goodbye
75
1
Benilda S. Santos
Father and Son
76
1
Tomasz Jastrun
Petrified Minute
77
1
Zoltan Zelk
Companion
77
1
Manjush Dasgupta
A Pearl
78
1
Fawziyya Abu Khalid
A New Dress
79
1
Ruth Dallas
Vitasp
80
1
Gieve Patel
Poem for My Son
81
1
Bibhu Padhi
An Appoinment
82
1
Chang Shiang-hua
The First Shoe
83
1
Maire Mhac an tSaoi
Grandmother
83
1
Sameeneh Shirazie
My Life Story
84
2
Lan Nguyen
The Mushroom River
86
1
Xue Di
Letter from My Son
87
1
Shihab Sarkar
Summer
88
1
Jayanta Mahaparatra
Jasmine
89
1
Kyongioo Hong Ryou
Footpath
90
1
Stella Ngatho
Family Portrail
91
4
Eka Budianta
THIS EARTH AND SKY IN WHICH WE LIVE: ``Water That used to Be a Cloud''
Mindoro
95
1
Ramon C. Sunico
Dawn
96
1
Edith Sodergran
Grass
97
1
Tom Kristensen
The Land of Mists
98
1
Kwang-Kyu Kim
Spring Poem
99
1
Colleen Thibaudeau
Dew
100
1
Linus Suryadi AG
``Beside a Stone three''
100
1
Christine M. Krishnasami
Country Memory
101
1
Leticia Herrera Alvarez
Cuernavaca
102
1
Aline Pettersson
Mountain Tambourine
102
1
Peter van Toorn
``The sodden moos sinks underfoot...,''
103
1
Ales Debeljak
Improvisation (Eching)
104
1
Kevin Perryman
``Greedy snowside''
105
1
The Sky Is Vast
106
1
Parmila Khadun
The Penguin
107
1
Ricardo Yanez
The Open Shutter
108
1
Karl Krolow
Wind's Foam
109
1
Al Mahmud
The Squirrel
110
1
Saleem Barakat
The Birth of a Stone
111
1
Kwang-kyu Kim
Caring for Animals
112
1
Jon Silkin
Autumn and the Sea
113
1
Javier Heraud
Pitcher
114
1
Renee ferrer de Arrellaga
Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth
115
1
Cat
116
1
Jibananda Das
The Moon Rises Slowly over the Ocean
117
1
Xu De-min
Stars at Night
118
1
Iku Takenaka
The Pit Ponies
119
2
Leslie Norris
Great Aso
121
1
Tatsuji Miyoshi
Ants
122
1
Yusuf al-Sa'igh
from Diary of a Woodcutter
122
2
Fuad Rifka
Under This Sky
124
5
Zia Hyder
LOSSESS: ``Kissed Trees''
``What is it that upsets the Volcanoes...,''
129
1
Pablo Neruda
There's an Orange Tree Out Three
130
1
Alfonso Quijada Urias
Horse by Moonlight
130
1
Alberto Blanco
A Tree
131
1
Klara Koettner-Benigni
Love
132
1
Tymoteusz Karpowicz
A Brief Note to the Bag lady, Ma Sister
133
3
Yusuf Eradam
A Man Never Cries
136
1
Jose Craveirinha
Surprise
137
1
Blanca Rodriguez
``Oh! Oh! Should They Take Away My Stove...'' My Inxehaustible Ode to Joy
138
1
Miron Bialoszewski
A Train is Passing
139
1
Poul Borum
A Gift Horse
139
1
Alamgir Hashmi
In the Labasese Mountains
140
2
Nadia Tueni
The Garden of a Child
142
1
Nirendranath Chakravarti
Bicycles
143
1
Anderi Voznesensky
The memory of Horses
144
1
Rolf Jacobsen
Inside
145
1
Kim Chiha
Home
146
1
Nasima Aziz
Before the Game
147
4
Vasko Popa
HUMAN MYSTERIES: ``White Bracelets''
Napoleon
151
1
Miroslav Holub
Locked In
152
1
Ingemar Leckius
Debt
153
1
Sunay Akin
A Boy's Head
154
1
Miroslav Holub
The Ship's Whistle
155
1
Tarapada Ray
Sweet Like a Crow
155
2
Michael Ondaatje
Volunteer Worker
157
1
Tony Perez
Behind bars
158
1
Fadwa Tuqan
On Destiny
159
1
Shuntaro Tanikawa
For Genevieve
160
1
Simeon Dumdum, Jr.
Childhood Is the Only Lasting Flower
161
1
Ramon Diaz Eterovic
Goodness
162
1
Benny Andersen
The Rhythm of the Tomtom
163
1
Antonio Jacinto
``Do what do you like with my face,''
164
1
Amanda Aizpuriete
The New Suit
165
1
Nidia Sanabria de Romero
White Bracelets
166
1
Collen Thibaudeau
I Have Ten Legs
167
1
Anna Swir
The Tongue
167
1
Pia Tafdrup
``A man Comes, in his suit crumpled,''
168
1
Sergei Timofeyev
Greenland's History
169
2
Sven Holm
The Wall
171
1
Tania Diaz Castro
Jerusalem
172
1
Yehuda Amichai
``There are times when I can't move''
172
1
Roberto Juarroz
``In his room the man watches''
173
1
Homero Aridjis
The Indians
174
2
Roberto Sosa
The Labourer
176
1
Toolsy Daby
Clouds on the Sea
177
1
Ruth Dallas
Or
178
2
Ali Darwish
My Share
180
1
Salih Bolat
Pride
181
1
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Lusia
182
2
Lucia Casalinuovo
Far and Close
184
1
Gu Cheng
At the Ferry
185
4
Vijaya Mukhopadhyay
Notes on the Contributors
189
9
Map
198
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
201
2
Acknowledgments
203
6
Index to Countries
209
2
Index to Poets
211