The Poetry of our world: an international anthology of contemporary poetry

Of knowledge and pleasure globalized: a world tour of the poetic moment

The English-Speaking World / edited by Helen Vendler. Greatest things from least suggestions / by Helen Vendler ; Robert Lowell (United States) ; Elizabeth Bishop (United States) ; Philip Larkin (England) ; Seamus Heaney (Ireland) ; Derek Walcott (St. Lucia, Caribbean) ; A sampling of other English-language poets.

Latin America / edited by Carolyn Forché. Poets of a different muse / by Carolyn Forché ; Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) ; Pablo Neruda (Chile) ; Octavio Paz (Mexico) ; Ceśar Vallejo (Peru) ; Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Brazil) ; A sampling of other Latin American poets.

Europe / edited by Joseph Brodsky, Sven Birkerts, and Edward Hirsch. Darker human possibilities / by Sven Birkerts ; Anna Akhmatova (Russia) ; Paul Celan (Romanian/Jewish [German language]) ; Zbigniew Herbert (Poland) ; Eugenio Montale (Italy) ; George Seferis (Greece) ; A sampling of other European poets.

Africa / edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah. An African way with words / by Kwame Anthony Appiah ; Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) ; Okot p'Bitek (Uganda) ; Antonio Agostinho Neto (Angola) ; Breyten Breytenbach (South Africa) ; Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) ; A sampling of other African poets.

Asia. India / edited by Anita Desai and Edward C. Dimock. What is Indian literature? / by Anita Desai ; A.K. Ramanujan.

The Middle East and Central Asia / edited by Agha Shahid Ali. Ghazals, Qasidas, Rubais, and a literary giant / by Agha Shahid Ali ; Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

Southeast Asia and the Pacific / edited by Burton Raffel and Denise Levertov. A thousand years without any season / by Burton Raffel ; A force in Indonesian poetry / by Denise Levertov ; Chairil Anwar.

China / edited by Bei Dao and Perry Link. How the "revolution" occurred in Chinese poetry: a memoir / by Bei Dao ; Exquisite swallows and poetry quotas: a tumultuous century in Chinese poetry / Perry Link and Maghiel van Crevel ; Duoduo.

Japan / edited by Donald Keene and Garrett Hongo. After the Tea ceremony, beyond the geisha's charms: modern Japanese literature / by Donald Keene ; A man on a child's swing: contemporary Japanese poetry / Garrett Hongo ; Shuntaro Tanikawa ; A sampling of other Asian poets.