Language for a New Century Available for Pre-Order!

Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East and Beyond, featuring over
400 poets from 55 countries writing in 40 different languages:

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"This extraordinary, library-in-one-volume: what a resource! Those to whom
poetry is essential as the supreme use of language will find the work of
many poets they have never before come to, and those readers who have
limited themselves to prose have the opportunity to discover how the poet
outreaches everything prose can illuminate in who and what we are, no matter
where, on the map. Nine thematic groupings of the work bring us wonderfully,
almost perilously close to ultimate experience in childhood, love, war,
exile, the inextricable relations between politics and the personal, the
tragic and the ironic, the wisdom in sorrow and humor, that only the most
intense imagination can plumb. That of the poet. The realm of imagination is
one. This anthology gives entry to its vast expression in the Middle East
and Asia, including the changing sensibilities of poets in the ever-growing
world of immigration. Assembled here not the Tower of Babel, but the
astonishment and subtlety inherent in many languages and their experimental
modes to expand the power of words. The introductions to each section offer
perceptions engagingly, against which to place one's own readings. The
editors have boldly envisaged and compiled a beautiful achievement for world
literature."

-Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Laureate



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Ravi Shankar
Ed., http://www.drunkenboat.com
Poet-in-Residence
Associate Professor
CCSU - English Dept.
860-832-2766
[email protected]