Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
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 th…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Handal, Nathalie (Hrsg.) / Shankar, Ravi (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-33238-4
- EAN: 9780393332384
- Produktnummer: 3302847
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 734 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D3.7 cm 984 g
- Gewicht: 984
Über den Autor
Tina Chang, author of Half-Lit Houses, teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. 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.
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