This book, the second volume in the ongoing compilation of 20th century world poetry, contains poetry and biographical material on 22 new poets: Anna Akhmatova (Russia), Oswald de Andrade (Brazil), Ece Ayhan (Turkey), Gottfried Benn (Germany), Lucian Blaga (Romania), Blaise Cendrars (Switzerland), Barbara Guest (USA), Nikolai Gumilev (Russia), Vicente Huidobro (Chile), D. H. Lawrence (England), Pablo Neruda (Chile), Saint-John Perse (Guadelope/France), Edith Sodergran (Finland), Alfonsina Storni (Argentina), and others. Publisher of Green Integer and Sun & Moon Press,Douglas Messerli has edited numerous anthologies and published several books of poetry, fiction, and drama of his own.