Ezra Pound’s poems “A Girl” and “In a Station of the Metro”; William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow”; Gary Snyder’s “By Frazier Creek Falls”; Marianne Moore’s “O To Be a Dragon”; Wallace Stevens’ “Anecdote of the Jar”; Robert Lowell’s “Water”; David Antin’s “meditation 4”; and 20 other poems by major modern and contemporary poets are collected as Old English translations in this unusual bilingual volume by Peter Glassgold. First published in 1985, then revised and expanded in 2012, Hwӕt! has continued to charm and delight readers of poetry of all centuries. Included are Glassgold’s Foreword plus his guide to spelling and pronunciation as well as explanatory notes for each of the translations. In all, a little anthology that will charm and delight readers of poetry of all centuries.

Green Integer. 2012.