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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition - First Printing. From the limited first printing of 500 copies, done by Kim Merker, containing translations by various luminaries of the Iowa Writer's Workshop including Paul Engle, Donald Justice and translation department director Mark Strand. Crisp, clean pages showing only some age-toning along edges; no owners' marks; the soft cover is modestly sunned along spine and edges and bears a small, closed split at the spine head, but is otherwise lovely, well kept. Complete contents: 1) "The Young Wife" by Wang Chang-Ling, trans. from the ancient Chinese by Thomas Wang; 2) "Salt" by Ya Hsien, trans. from modern Chinese by Wai-Lim Yip; 3) "Looking Up : A Song" by Wai-Lim Yip, trans. from modern Chinese by the author; 4) "Facing Midnight" by Ko Won, trans. from Korean by the author; 5) "Among the Many Heaps of Ashes" by Cho Sung-kyun, trans. from Korean by the author; 6) "Japan that Sank Under the Sea" by Satoru Sato, trans. from Japanese by the author; 7) "Winter from a Window" by Edith L. Tiempo, a Philippina poet, the poem written in English; 8) "Last Passengers" by Sunil Gangopadhyay, trans. from Bengali by the author; 9) "A Day" by Shree Kant Varma, trans. from Hindi by the author; 10) "Hush, My Heart, and Attend" by Yishaq Lamdan, trans. from Hebrew by Ephraim Sando & Frederick Bargebuhr; 11) "Inscriptions on Gravestones" by Orhan Veli, trans. from Turkish by Guneli Herschiser; 12) a passage from the "Clytemnestra" of Aeschylus, trans. from ancient Greek by Vito Hannibal Acconci; 13) "December 3" by Vittoria Sereni, trans. from Italian by Mark Strand and Antonia Strand; 14) "The Devoted Lovers" by Jorge Guillen, trans. from Spanish by Mark Strand; 15) "The Brightness of Brightness" by Egan O'Rahilly, the original appearing herein and hand-lettered by Michael O'Connor of Dublin, trans. from Irish Gaelic by Bryan MacMahon; 16) "For the Death of Two Poets" by Dori Katz, trans. from French by Donald Justice; "The Panther by Ranier Maria Rilke, trans. from German by Paul Engle; and 17) "Words" by Wislawa Szymborska, trans. from Polish by Krystof Zarzecki. The cover art is Korean calligraphy, executed in brown ink by by poet Cho Sung-kyun. …