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Product Description An anthology of poetry in translation. Vasko Popa: The Cut - translated by Anne Pennington and Francis R Jones Ivan V Lalic - Francis R Jones Viktor Krivulin - Michael Molnar Victor Felea - Stefan Stoenescu Elisabeth Borchers - Anneliese Wagner Michael Augustin - Margitt Lehbert Trilussa - John DuVal P A Quarantotti Gambini - James Kirkup Attilio Bertolucci - Charles Tomlinson Erik Axel Karlfeldt - Judith Moffett Elin ap Hywel - Mark Howe Oscar Hahn - Ina Cumpiano The Battle of Kosovo - John Matthias & Vladeta Vuckovic Yugoslav `Women's Songs' - Daniel Weissbort & Tomislav Longinovic Martial - Peter Whigham Fëdor Tjutcev - Anatoly Liberman About the Author Daniel Weissbort, born in 1935, read History at Cambridge and did graduate work at the London School of Economics on the politics of recent Soviet literature. He founded `Modern Poetry in Translation' with Ted Hughes in 1965, and was on the advisory board of the London Poetry International festivals from 1969 to 1972.