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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Tina (Ed) Chang
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Description for Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Paperback. A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available. Editor(s): Chang, Tina; Handal, Nathalie; Shankar, Ravi. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 254 x 34. Weight in Grams: 978.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Number of Pages
784
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393332384
SKU
V9780393332384
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About Tina (Ed) Chang
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 Forché, poet, translator, and activist, is professor of English at Georgetown University. She has published two award-winning volumes of ... Read more
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