Featuring all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets--including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, Robert Hass, Gary Soto, Jane Hirshfield, David Ferry, Molly Peacock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Richard Wilbur, and many othersThe Word Exchange is a landmark work of translation, as fascinating and multivocal as the original literature it translates.

Featuring 123 all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Richard Wilbur, and many others this brilliant anthology infuses new vigor into Old English poetry (Library Journal). Presented in an authoritative bilingual edition, The Word Exchange is as fascinating and multivocal as the original literature it translates."

Adding to the original "Greek Anthology," which comprises 16 books of short poems attributed to many different authors ranging from the seventh century BC to the 10th century AD this compilation adds a modern fictional book similar in range, tone, and variety of subject matter. The poems are amatory, religious, dedicatory, humorous, sepulchral, hortatory, declamatory, and satirical. Adopting the voices of several fictional yet familiar characters, including Heanius and Gregory of Corkus, this volume offers old and new ways of looking at the contemporary world."