Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 On the Strassenbahn with Klaus Merz's Poetry -- 2 Friedrich Hölderlin, Our Contemporary -- 3 German Poetry beyond Rilke, Benn, and Brecht -- 4 The Unexpected Compassion of Gottfried Benn -- 5 Reading Contemporary Poetry in Weimar -- 6 Translating Swiss Poetry in Looren -- 7 The Italian Poets Are Coming! -- 8 Meeting up with Lorenzo Calogero in Florence -- 9 "Guardami, dimmi, è così per te": Alfredo de Palchi -- 10 Sandro Penna's Secret Poems -- 11 The Dark of Love: Patrizia Cavalli -- 12 Poetic Ljubljana -- 13 Edvard Kocbek, Emmanuel Mounier, the French Review Esprit, and Personalism -- 14 Questions of Daily Life and Beyond: Milan Djordjevi? -- 15 The Tiger Is the World: Tomislav Marijan Bilosni? -- 16 The Unshackling of Albanian Poetry -- 17 Standing by Pointlessness: Kiki Dimoula -- 18 Manolis Xexakis's Captain Super Priovolos: Notes for an Exegesis -- 19 A Panorama of Turkish Love Poetry: Birhan Keskin and Other Contemporary Women Poets -- 20 The Seventh Gesture: Tsvetanka Elenvoka -- 21 The Wonder-like Lightning of Prose Poetry -- 22 Love According to Luca -- 23 Discovering Benjamin Fondane -- 24 The Desire to Affirm: George Szirtes -- 25 Prague as a Poem: Vít?zslav Nezval and Emil Hakl -- 26 A Rather Late Letter from Wroc?aw -- 27 The Self and Its Selves: A Journey through Poetic Northern Climes -- 28 The Russian Poets Are Coming! -- 29 The Five Angles of the Golden Rectangle: Tomas Venclova -- 30 Telling Dichotomies: María do Cebreiro and Kristiina Ehin -- 31 The Metaphysics of the Kiss: Vicente Aleixandre -- 32 A Spanish Metaphysical Poet Searching for Songs of Truth: José Ángel Valente -- 33 The Passion and the Patience of Eugénio de Andrade -- 34 The Past Hour, the Present Hour: Yves Bonnefoy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index