Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond - Softcover

 
9780393332384: Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond

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An extensive collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry includes the work of four hundred contributors from a variety of backgrounds, in a thematically organized anthology that is complemented by personal essays. Original.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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 poetry, Gathering the Tribes and The Country Between Us. In 1990 Ms. Fourché 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.

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