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Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
W. W. Norton
April 2008
On Sale: April 7, 2008
560 pages
ISBN: 0393332381
EAN: 9780393332384
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A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-
reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle
Eastern poetry available. Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and
cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing
together an unprecedented selection of works by South
Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian poets
as well as poets living in the Diaspora. Some poets, such
as Bei Dao and Mahmoud Darwish, are acclaimed worldwide,
but many more will be new to the reader. The collection
includes 400 unique voices—political and apolitical,
monastic and erotic—that represent a wider artistic
movement that challenges thousand-year-old traditions,
broadening our notion of contemporary literature. Each section of the anthology—organized by theme rather
than by national affiliation—is preceded by a personal
essay from the editors that introduces the poetry and
exhorts readers to examine their own identities in light of
these powerful poems. In an age of violence and terrorism,
often predicated by cultural ignorance, this anthology is a
bold declaration of shared humanity and devotion to the
transformative power of art.
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