Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
by:
Ravi Shankar (author)
Tina Chang (author)
A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.
A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393332384 (0393332381)
Publish date: April 17th 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 784
Edition language: English
If I liked political poetry this would have gotten more stars, alas. Otherwise, there certainly is good poetry in this anthology, but I found it hard to navigate. The poems are grouped thematically rather than geographically, and to find out where a poet comes from, one needs to go to a particular i...