At 05:43 PM 2/3/2010, you wrote:
It's an incredibly useful anthology, for all that Prynne isn't in it,
and the British/Irish anthology I most consult. Precisely for the
reasons set out below.


Ditto.

Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of California Press).
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland

"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in English. There is nothing else like it."   John Palattella in The Nation