China fact of the day
Top 10 collections of translated poetry, from a single Chinese store:
- Paul Celan, Selected Poetry and Prose
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems
- Dylan Thomas, Selected Poems
- Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems
- Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
- Allen Ginsberg, Selected Poems
- Friedrich Hölderlin, Poems
- Constantine P. Cavafy, Collected Poems
- Federico Garcia Lorca, Selected Poetry
- The Eddas
Not a bad list, I would like to know more about their clientele. The top four "General Titles in Poetry" are:
- Friedrich Hölderlin, Collected Prose
- Martin Heidegger, Elucidations of Holderlin’s Poetry
- Wang Zuoliang, History of English Poetry
- Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation
Thanks to Yan Li for the pointer.