title: World Beat: International Poetry Now from New Directions (New Directions Paperbook)
author:  Eliot Weinberger 
description: Essayist and translator Weinberger has culled this sampler of 24 international poets mostly from the pages of their New Directions books. Recent American poets like Forest Gander, Rosmarie Waldrop and Susan Howe collide with poets from around the world, such as Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz and Swedish heavyweight Tomas Transtr&ouml;mer. By turns philosophical-"To enter the real, / how far / must we feel beyond / the world in which we already are?" (Charles Tomlinson)-ironic-"I do not know English, and therefore I can have nothing to say about this latest war" (Michael Palmer)-and direct-"I thank everyone I don't love. / They don't cause me heartache" (Dunya Mikhail)-this anthology is less a catalogue of cultural differences than an inquiry into the universal sources of perception and imagination. Anne Carson's self-referential and unknowable God, for whom "God's own calmness is a sign of God" meets Gu Cheng's God "who lets you cherish the sand, pockets, and the children." This anthology impressively represents the ways New Directions has blurred the boundaries between one poet's-and perhaps one nation's- concerns and those of another, offering a fresh look at the international poetry scene. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: NEW BEARINGS 
  IN ENGLISH POETRY 
  
  By the same' Author 
  THE COMMON PURSUIT 
  THE GREAT TRADITION 
  REVALUATION 
  EDUCATION AND THE UNIVERSITY 
  ★ 
  With Denys Thompson 
  CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT 
  Edited by the same Author 
  DETERMINATIONS 
  MILL ON BENTHAM AND COLERIDGE 
  
  NEW BEARINGS IN 
  ENGLISH POETRY 
  A STUDY OF 
  THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION 
  F. R. Leavis 
  Yellow of Downing College 
  Cambridge 
  NEW EDITION 
  1961 
  CHATTO & WINDUS 
  LONDON 
  
  PUBLISHED "BY 
  Chatto and Windus Ltd. 
  LONDON 
  ★ 
  Clarke, Irwin & Co. Ltd. 
  TORONTO 
  FIRST PUBLISHED I 932 
  REPRINTED I937, 1942 
  NEW EDITION 1950 
  REPRINTED 1954 
  REPRINTED 1959 
  REPRINTED I 96 I 
  PRINTED BY THE REPLIKA PROCESS 
  IN GREAT BRITAIN BY 
  LUND HUMPHRIES 
  LONDON • BRADFORD 
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 
  
  Contents 
  PREFATORY NOTE Page I 
  I. POETRY AND THE MODERN WORLD 5 
  II. THE SITUATION AT THE END OF 
  WORLD WAR I 27 
  III. T. S. ELIOT 75 
  IV. EZRA POUND 133 
  V. GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 159 
  VI. EPILOGUE J95 
  VII. RETROSPECT I95O 215 
  
  To 
  H. L. and Q.D.L. 
  
  Nigh