New European Poets presents the exciting works of poets from across Europe. In compiling this landmark anthology, editors Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer enlisted twenty-four regional editors to select and translate 290 poets, whose writing was first published after 1968. These poets represent every country in Europe, and many of them are published here for the first time in English or in the United States. The resulting anthology collects some of the very best work of a new generation of poets who have come of age since Paul Celan, Anna Akhmatova, Federico Garcia Lorca, Eugenio Montale, and Czeslaw Milosz.
The poetry in
New European Poets is fiercely intelligent, often irreverent, and engaged with history and politics. The range of aesthetics and styles is exhilarating—from the lyric intimacy of Portuguese poet Rosa Alice Branco to the profane prose poems of Romanian poet Radu Andriescu, from the surrealist bravado of Czech poet Sylva Fischerova to the survivor’s cry of Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya. Poetry translated from more than thirty languages is represented, including French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and the more regional languages such as Basque, Irish Gaelic, and Sami.
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New European Poets, in its scope and ambition, is destined to be a seminal anthology, an important vehicle for American readers to discover the extraordinary poetry being written now across the Atlantic.
New European Poets thrillingly expands the view and widens the horizon for contemporary American poetry. It puts us into deep contact with other voices, other shores, and thereby extends our knowledge of other poetries, other countries. It is necessary reading."
—Edward Hirsch
A Lannan Translation Selection
