
Language for a New Century
Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 9. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
784 pages
978-0-393-33238-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
984 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-33238-4 (9780393332384)
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Persons
Tina Chang is the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn, New York, where she lives. New York-based poet, playwright, and writer Nathalie Handal performs and teaches worldwide.
Ravi Shankar, founding editor of Drunken Boat and author of Instrumentality, lives in Connecticut.
Carolyn Forche, poet, translator, and activist, is professor of English at Georgetown University. She has published two award-winning volumes of poetry, Gathering the Tribes and The Country Between Us. In 1990 Ms. Fourche received a Lannan Literary Award, granted to poets and writers of literary excellence "whose work promotes a truer understanding of contemporary life." Her most recent volume of poetry is Blue Hour.
Ravi Shankar, founding editor of Drunken Boat and author of Instrumentality, lives in Connecticut.
Carolyn Forche, poet, translator, and activist, is professor of English at Georgetown University. She has published two award-winning volumes of poetry, Gathering the Tribes and The Country Between Us. In 1990 Ms. Fourche received a Lannan Literary Award, granted to poets and writers of literary excellence "whose work promotes a truer understanding of contemporary life." Her most recent volume of poetry is Blue Hour.