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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 affiliation—is preceded by a personal essay from the editors that introduces the poetry and exhorts readers to examine their own identities in light of these powerful poems. In an age of violence and terrorism, often predicated by cultural ignorance, this anthology is a bold declaration of shared humanity and devotion to the transformative power of art.
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Louis Ramey
reviewed Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond on June 15, 2014 Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
How does release
from what you love
become "unequivocal freedom" Twenty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents;
that is a cost of a world.
Not including tax or later library accommodation,
a gleam of the best and brights save for some reason,
some how,
someone withdrew the world,
setting the place to the path where I would pick it up
for a buck.
The world is most easily accessible through the kills of propaganda,
less accessible through quiz quests of geography,
even littler so in immigration of their lives.
If real is the bottom and classic's the top,
there's also defensive measures for the latter.
Specialization, appropriation,
grants, funds, pride,
socioeconomic survival of forlorn linguistics
made only so by contrast of heart
and hate crimes.
Singapore. Beirut. Philippines. Taiwan.
These are the poems that spoke to me.
Indonesia. Japan. Armenia. Turkmenistan.
What do you recognize as worth your time?
Korea. Lebanon. Israel. India.
Drone strikes make a small world smaller.
I do not read for expertise,
I do not read for fact.
I do not read for rhyme nor reason
Least not for ones I've known.
Not oft drowned in poetry,
but from what I've seen in class
one nation one language one gender aspired
complacency is death.
Food and sex and violence sprung
farther than eye can see.
How do you pick your comfort zone
for resting mind and heart?
Many a canon you do not know,
will never know in fact.
Translation's a beast, or so they say
a shame for Bible-bound.
I refuse to wait for humanity to be served up on a plate.
Fresh and pressed, Anglophized,
your money or your life.
Will you wait to seek your bload soaked hands
when all the grinding stops?
Here's a hint: it never ends
not here not there not now.
Babies born beyond our ken
sainthood's never shown.
Shy away from piercing soul
cupidity of ebola.
You can no longer laugh at this or that,
the commerce of my soil.
Whether it is the same for you I cannot tell,
a variation on the theme of this.
No simplicity of blood bone and flesh,
no demographic sum.
Come, you previous generations,
deriders of my patience.
Try your hand at history you've wrought
on this the online land.
Love's a belittled word for it
lest you grip your throat and cry.
Find a grasp of frozen sea,
this lovely work of life. Hold the heart. Imagine it is yours.
But do not take my word for it.
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