Volume 2 includes poems by Bei Dao, Connie Deanovich, Merrill Gilfillan, Anne Porter, and Tony Towle, with featured sections on English poet Lee Harwood, Taiwanese author Hsia Yu, and Polish poet and translator MLB; translations by Alexis Levitin, Stephanie Sandler, Lawrence Venuti, and Eliot Weinberger.
 
“Here comes Zoland with ‘poetry that [is] needed’—the plausible antidote to bad dead words of the latest sad world mess. Such an ample, sustainable flurry, and (Jack Collom tells us) ‘each flake unique.’ ” 
—Bill Berkson
 
Cover art by Darragh Park: Palette & Subject III, 1987