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A MONUMENTAL UNDERTAKING Six years in the making, this volume represents the combined efforts of eight editors and literally dozens of translators. In the process of preparing this book, thousands ofpoems were read and considered. The work of virtually every European poet in the languages represented was considered before the final selection was made. The result is a singular monument to the glories and varied splendors of some of the greatest poetry of our time.

AN UNPRECEDENTED ANTHOLOGY OF THE FINEST CONTEMPORARY TRANSLATIONS OF EUROPEAN POETRY. Including a selection of Spanish-American poetry. THE EDITORS

WILLIS BARNSTONE, Department of Spanish and Compara­ tive Literature, Indiana University; Editor, Hispanic Arts PATRICIA TERRY, Department of French, Barnard College ARTHUR S. WENSINGER, Department of German and School of Letters, Wesleyan University KIMON FRIAR, Editor, Greek Heritage SONIA RAIZISS and ALFREDO DE P ALCHI, Poetry Editors, Chelsea GEORGE REAVEY, translator, author, critic ANGEL FLORES, Department of Spanish and Comparative Lit­ erature, Queens College MODERN EUROPEAN POETRY

FRENCH / GERMAN / GREEK ITALIAN / RUSSIAN / SPANISH

Edited by WILLIS BARNSTONE PATRICIA TERRY ARTHUR S. WENSINGER KIMON FRIAR SONIA RAIZISS and ALFREDO DE PALCHI GEORGE REAVEY ANGEL FLORES

BANT AM BOOKS. INC . NEW YORK / TORONTO / LONDON MODERN EUROPEAN POETRY A Bantam Classic / published January 1¢6

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-12156 All rights reserved. Copyright © 1966 by Bautam Books, Inc. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission in writing.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For permission to reprint all works in this volume by each 01 the following poets and translators, grateful acknowledgment is made to the holders 0/ copyright, publishen or representatives named below and on the following three pages (pages v, vi, vii), which constitute an extension of this copyright page.

FRENCH NEW DIRECTIONS: "I Am Writins to You from a Far-off Country" by Henri Michaux from Selected Writings 0/ Hellri Michaux. "Orpheus," "The Mouse" "The Elephant " "Windows," "Ocean of Earth." "Vitam Impendere Amori'" "Twilight' and "The Gypsy" by from Selected W ritinHS of Guillaume Apollinaire. AU rights reserved by New Directions. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. CITY LIGHTS BOOKS: "Quartier Libre," "Alicante," '''Quicksands,'' "To Paint the Portrait of a Bird" and "The Dunce" by Jacques Pn~vert from Pocketbook Series, reprinted by permission of City Lights Books. © 1947 Editions Gallimard. YALE FRENCH STUDIES: "The Discourse on Peace" and "Picasso Goes for a Stroll" by jacques Pre vert from Paroles, 1949. RANDOM HOUSE, INC.: "Evadne," "The Rampart of Twigs," "Lightning Vic­ tory" and "The Woods along the Eptc" by Rene Char from Hypnos Wakin.e © 1956 Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. THE HUDSON REVIEW: "Theatre" by Yves Bonnefoy: © 1961 by The Hudson Review, Inc. POETRY: ('Another Voice" and "Thus We Will Walk" by Yves Bonnefoy reprinted by permission of Poetry © ,?60 by Modern Poetry Association. DE FRANCE: "Dead Weight,' "Beyond Measure" and "The Winding Road" by from Main D'Oeuvre, 1950; "Another Voice" and "Thus We Will Walk" by Yves Bonnefoy from flu Mouvement et de fim­ mobilite; "The Wind Is Quiet," "The Iron Bridge" and "Here, Still Here" by Yves Bonnefoy from Hier Reinant Desert, 1959. EDITIONS ALBIN MICHEL: 'The Boatmen," "Mountebanks," "Festival of the Moon," "Living Light" and "Vegetal Body" by Robert Sabatier from Les Fetes Solaires, 1955 and "Mortal Landscape" and "The Voyages" by Robert Sabatier from Dedicare d'un Navire, 1958. EDITIONS Sf:GHERS: "Elsa at the Mirror" by Louis Aragon from La Diane Iran(aise, 1944; "Bather" by jean Follain from Poemes de L'Annee, 1959; "The Enemy of Spring" by Claude Vigee from La Corne du Grande Pardon, '954· EDITIONS G.L.M.: "Song of the Stairs" and "Common Presence" by Rene Char. EDITIONS GALLIMARD: Jules Supervielle's "Prophecy" and "Flame Tip" from Gravitations .. 1925; "The Wake" "Regretting the Earth," "The Poet" and "The House Surrounded" from Les Antis lnconnus, 19~; "The Raindrop" from La Fable du Monde, I9~8; "The Grief of the Death' and "You Disappear" from I.939-I945, 1945; 'Metamorphosis in Blood" and "The Survey' from L'Escalier, 1956; Pierre Reverdy's "Sun," "Nomad," "Sound of Bell," "De· parture," "Nocturnal Round," "Noon" and "They Alone" from Les Epaves du Ciel, 1924; Paul Eluard's "Lady Love," "Second Nature," "They Are Alike," "Evil," "We Have Made the Darkness Ours," "Of No A~e" and "Warning" from Choix de Poemes, 1951; "The Invention" and 'Georges Braque" from Capitale de la Douleur, 1926; Henri Michaux's "My Life" and "My King" from La Nuit Remue, 1934; "Intervention" and "I Am Writing to You from a Far-off Country" from L' Espace du Dedans, 1914; and "Nausea or This Is Death Coming on?" from Ecuador, 1929; Jacques Prevert's "Quartier Libre," "Alicante," "Quicksands," "To Paint the Portrait of a Bird," "The Dunce," "The Discourse on Peace" and "Picasso Goes for a Stroll" from Contents

A Note on Prehistory. . • . . . xix Introduction: An Anthology of Modern Poetry xxi

FRENCH POETRY I Guillaume Apollinaire 5 Nocturnal Round 23 From The Bestiary Noon 24 Orpheus 5 They Alone 24 T he Mouse 6 Dead Weight 25 The Elephant 6 Beyond Measure 26 T he Peacock 6 The Winding Road 26 From A1cools Paul Eluard 28 Twilight 6 Lady Love 29 The Gypsy 7 The Farewell 7 The Invention 29 The Betrothal [6, 7, 13] 7 Georges Braque 30 From Calligrammes Second Nature 30 Windows 8 They Are Alike 3 I Reconnaissance 9 Evil 32 Ocean of Earth 9 We Have Made the Darkness Vitam Impendere Ours 32 Warning 33 Amori 10 Chapeau Tombeau 12 Of No Age 33 Louis Aragon 35 Jules Supervielle 13 Elsa at the Mirror 36 Prophecy 14 The New Year's Rose 37 Flame Tip 14 I Shall Devise for You the The Wake 15 Rose 37 Regretting the Earth 15 They Will Not Believe The House Surrounded 16 Me ... 38 Metamorphosis in Blood 16 The Poet 17 Henri Michaux 40 The Raindrop 17 My Life 41 The Grief of the Dead 17 MyKing 41 The Survey 18 Nausea or This Is Death You Disappear 19 Coming on? 42 Intervention 43 Pierre Reverdy 2 I "I am Writing to You from Sun 22 a Far-off Country" 44 Nomad 22 Sound of Bell 22 Jacques Prevert 48 Departure 23 Quartier Libre 48 x CONTENTS Alicante 49 The Rampart of Twigs 68 Quicksands 49 Lightning Victory 69 To Paint the Portrait of a The Woods along the Epte Bird 49 70 The Dunce 51 70 The Discourse on Peace 51 Play and Sleep . _ - 71 Picasso Goes for a Stroll 51 71 Door of Wholesome Death 54 72 Cuckoo-Clock 55 Song of the Stairs 73 The Great Days of the Poet Common Presence 74 56 If You Only Knew 57 Claude Vigee 75 Nightfall 58 The Enemy of Spring 75 The Ant 59 The Cosmic Comedian 76 Last Poem 59 The Phoenix of Mozart 77 At World's End 59 Blues 77 Sun 60 Chorale in December 78 Song 79 Jean Follain 61 April 80 Fox 61 Epiphany 80 Child's Blackness 62 Voluntary Maiming 62 Robert Saba tier 82 The Man Who Stuffed Birds The Boatmen 82 63 Festival of the Moon 83 Owl 63 Mountebanks 84 Dog with Schoolboys 63 Vegetal Body 85 These and Those 64 Mortal Landscape 86 Death 64 The Voyages 86 October Thoughts 64 Living Light 87 Life 65 Yves Bonnefoy 88 Bather 65 Theatre 89 The Terror 65 Another Voice 92 The Instant 66 Thus We Will Walk 93 The Plant 66 The Wind Is Quiet 93 Rene Char 67 The Iron Bridge 94 Evadne 68 Here, Stili Here 94

GERMAN POETRY 95

Christian Morgenstern 100 The Emporium 104 Korf's Joke 101 The Knee 104 The Sandwich Paper 101 Palmstrom 105 Anxiety for the Future 103 The Two Donkeys CONTENTS xi Rosa Hortensie 123 The Spheres 105 The Apple Orchard. Borgeby- Ding, Dang, Dong 106 124 The Daynightlamp 106 Ghd A Young Girl's Tomb 124 The Mousetrap 107 Palm strom to a Nightingale Ever Again. .. 125 Which Would Not Let Death of the Poet 125 Him Sleep 108 Georg Trakl 126 Palmstrom Gives Praise 108 De Profundis 127 The Pike 109 Nocturne 127 The Moonsheep 109 Toward Nightfall My Heart Rainer Maria Rilke II 0 128 Great Night I I I To the Silenced 128 Eva 112 Elis 129 Music: Breathing of Statues To the Boy Elis 130 II3 Summer 130 Portrait I 13 The Sun 131 Self-Portrait 114 Nearness of Death 131 The Cadet Picture of My In Hellbrunn 13 1 Father 114 At the Eastern Front 132 Behind the Inculpable Trees Grodek 132 liS Walk 115 Gottfried Benn 134 Exposed on the Alps of the Thalassal Regression 135 Heart I 16 Poems That Stand Still 136 Buddha 116 Cycle 137 Loneliness I 16 September 137 Sense of Something Coming Three Poems from Morgue II7 Tiny Aster 139 Apparition 117 Beautiful Youth 139 When Catching. II8 Late 139 Imaginary Life 118 The Death of Orpheus 143 Experience of Death 119 Only When 144 Parting II9 Ah, the Distant Land 145 Spanish Dancer 120 Fragments 146 Late Autumn in Venice 120 Blue Hydrangea 121 Bertoh Brecht 147 Sonnets to Orpheus, IllS Conversations Rowing 149 121 Those Who Deprive the Sonnets to Orpheus, Il/6 Table of Meat 149 122 Germany 149 Archaic Torso of Apollo A Worker Reads, and Asks 122 These Questions 150 . Paris. 123 The Landscape of Exile 151 Love Song 123 Song on Black Saturday at xii CONTENTS thl' Elevf'nth Hour of the Heinz Piontek 167 Night D"forf' Easter 15 I Wind's Bride 168 Of Sw:mming in Lakes and Mf'rlin's Travels 168 Rivers 1.12 Korschinsky Potted 169 The Mask of Evil 153 The Routes of Fate 170 1940 153 Journey Without End On Watering the Garden I7i 154 Shadows and Tracks 17 1 The Plum-Tree 154 Ingeborg Bachmann 173 Karl Krolow 155 The Respite 174 Dead Sf'ason 156 Mf'ssage 174 Love Poem 156 FogLand 175 Words 157 To the Sun 176 Walk 158 Curriculum Vitae 177 8 Poems Against Death 15 Giinter Grass 180 Paul Celan 162 Folding Chairs 181 In the Shape of a Boar 162 Opf'n Air Concert 181 Eye of Time 163 In the Egg 181 Corona 163 The Open Wardrobe 183 Fugue of Death 164 Food for Prophets 183 Life Cycle 165 To All Gardeners 184 The Tankards 166 Crack-up 184 With Changing Key 166 Frost and Bite 185

GREEK POETRY

Angelos Sikelianos 192 George Seferis 2 I 2 Attic 192 Gymnopaedia 212 Sparta 194 Mathias Pasealis among the Pantarkes 195 Roses 215 "Haute Actualite" 197 Intf'rval of Joy 216 An Old Man by the River Nikos Kazantzakis 201 Bank 217 From The Odyssey: A Mod­ Hell'n 218 ern Sequel Three Mules 221 The Ascent 201 Odyssf'uS and Helen Meet George Themelis 225 Again in Sp:1l"ta 203 Tour 225 Odyssf'uS Becomes One Desolation 226 with N~ture 204 Search 226 Dying Odysseus Says Fare­ well to His Five Ele­ Demetrius Antoniou 228 ments 206 The Bad Merchants 228 CONTENTS xiii

Poem 228 ond Lieutenant of the To the Cold Imagination Albanian Campaign 229 245

Yanms Ritsos 23 0 Nikos Gatsos 250 The Audible and the Inau- From Amorg6s 250 dible 23 0 Miltos Sahtouris 253 A Lone Man's Night 23 0 The Gifts 253 Estrangement 23 1 Beauty 254 Diptych 23 1 Experiments for the Repeti- Alexander Matsas 233 tion of Night 254 Of Sleep 233 Life 255 Landscape 234 Observatory 255 Anthropos 234 The Saviour 256 Nikos Engon6poulos 236 Eleni Vakal6 258 The Apprentice of Sorrow My Father's Eye 258 236 Age of the Polyp 259 Street-Car and Acropolis Nanos Valaoritis 260 237 Homecoming 260 Picasso 238 Nikos Karouzos 262 Odysseus Ely tis 240 Touching This Youthfulness We Walked in the Fields All 262 Day 240 Continuing City 263 Adolescence of Day 241 Drinking the Corinthian Sun Dinos Christian6poulos 265 241 They Are Tracking Down Glittering Day, Conch of Everything Picturesque That Voice 242 265 I Know the Night No Longer Dismissed from Military 242 Service 266 Helen 243 Interval of Joy 266 Anniversary 244 From Body to Body 267 From Heroic and Elegiac The Centurion Cornelius Song for the Lost Sec- 267

ITALIAN POETRY

Umberto Saba 274 To My Wife 276 Winter Noon 274 Vincenzo Cardarelli 279 The Cham pion Swimmer Adolescent 279 275 Night Encounter 281 One Night 275 Tired 283 xiv CONTENTS Dina Campana 285 The Cats Will Know 320 The Window 285 Death Will Come and Will Autumn Garden 286 Have Your Eyes 321 The Night of the Fair 287 The Goat-God 32 I Your Animal Eyes 287 Leonardo Sinisgalli 324 Giuseppe U ngaretti 289 Morning Has Just Grown Deathwatch 290 324 You Were Broken 290 Lazarus' Dog 325 June 292 Old Tears 325 From the Sequence The Med­ Holy Saturday at Manfre­ itated Death donia 326 First Song 293 Notes on a Handkerchief's Earth 294 Edge 326 Choruses Descriptive of Dido's States of Mind Mario Luzi 328 295 Berry 328 All Souls' Day 329 Eugenio Montale 298 On Approaching Forty 330 Arsenio 299 As You Wish 331 The Lemon Trees 301 Dora Markus 302 Vittorio Sereni 333 The Magnolia's Shadow An Italian in Greece 333 30 4 The First Man Fallen 334 Little Testament 304 On the Road to Zenna 334 The Dead 305 The Beach 335 Storm 306 Expectation 336 Two Figures in Twilight Hallucination 337 30 7 Only Summer Is Real 337 Iris 308 To a Childhood Chum 338 The Eel 309 David Maria Turoldo 340 Salvatore Quasimodo 31 I The Secret of Cain 340 Metamorphoses in the Urn of Windy Day 342 the Saint 312 Love and Death 343 Man of My Time 312 Auschwitz 3 13 Pier Paolo Pasolini 344 In This City 314 From Lament of the Power To My Father 314 Shovel 344 For Varvara Alexandrovna From The Beautiful Flags 3 15 347 On the Island 316 Bartolo Cattafi 35 I Cesare Pavese 318 The Agave 35 I Instinct 318 Dieppe, July 352 Landscape II 319 Sailing from Greenwich 352 CONTENTS xv Wingspan 353 Land and Sea 360 Sublimation 354 Lombard-V cnetian 361 A Thing of Precision 354 Super Flumina 361

Rocco Scotellaro 355 Giorgio Orelli 363 A Portrait All Feet 355 Summer 363 To the Carter's Daughter For a Friend About to Be 35 6 Married 364 To His Fiancee, for Easter Christmas 1944 365 356 The Centipede 365 Mallow-Warm 356 In the Family Circle 365 The Adige Roars 356 Dirty Puddle, April 18th Lucio Piccolo 367 357 Mutable World 367 The Dawn Is Always New Sirocco 368 357 From Veneris Venefica Luciano Erba 359 Agrestis 368 The Inattentive 359 The Sundial 369

RUSSIAN POETRY • • • • • • • • • 37 1

Alexander Blok 375 I Was Like a Child 414 The Twelve 377 This Age 415 Leningrad 415 Sergey Yesenin 387 Tavern Moscow 388 Eduard Bagritzky 417 Farewell, My Friend 391 Sweetly I Faint 418 By Our Black Bread, Our 392 Faithful Wife 419 They Don't Understand a Thing 394 Anna Akhmatova 420 Could You? 395 Of the Cuckoo I Inquired Brother Writers 395 421 Mayakovsky in Heaven 396 From You I Hid My Heart From The Cloud in Trousers: 421 A Tetraptych, Prologue The Death of Sophocles 399 422 Order No. 2 to the Army of Requiem 422 the Arts 405 Brooklyn Bridge 407 Boris Pasternak 429 The Drowsy Garden 43 Past One O'Clock 41 I 2 From "Marburg" 432 Osip Mandelshtam 4 I 2 Sparrow Hills 432 We Shall Die 413 Sister My Life 433 On the Dread Heights 414 Prologue to "1905" 434 xviii CONTENTS The Jungle and the Sea The Weathercock of the Ca­ 547 thedral of Quito 568 Black Hair 548 Cocoa Tree 569 Truth 549 A Man from Ecuador Be­ To a Naked Girl 549 neath the Eiffel Tower Destiny of the Flesh 550 569 Sing, Birds 551 Return Voyage 570 To Don Luis De Gongora John Without Heaven 572 551 Transformations 573 Eternally 552 Epitaph 552 574 Summits of Macchu Picchu 554 575 The Collegiate Angels 555 The Bull of Death 555 Miguel Hermindez 587 If My Voice Should Die on From The Unending Light- Land 556 ning 588 To Miss X, Buried in the Elegy For Ramon Sije 591 West Wind 556 Last Song 592 The Angel of Numbers War 593 558 The Train of the Wounded Blue 559 593 Ballad of What the Wind The Cemetery 595 Said 561 Lullaby of the Onion 595 Jesuit School 562 Metamorphosis of the Carna­ Octavio Paz 598 The Street 598 tion 564 From Sun Stone 599 Jorge Carrera Andrade The Day in Udaipur 600 567 The Endless Instant 603