Bibliograph

Language for a new century, contemporary poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and beyond, edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar

Type

Label

Language for a new century, contemporary poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and beyond, edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Language for a new century

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

181139502

Responsibility statement

edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar

Sub title

contemporary poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and beyond

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Parsed into Colors -- DAVID AVIDAN, Dance Music -- XUE DI, The Wanderer -- DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN, Two Voices -- JESSICA HAGEDORN, Motown/Smokey Robinson -- MAMDOUH ADWAN, Tired of Soliloquies -- KAMARAN MUKRI, Star, Bird & Autumn -- NOOZAR ELIAS, Stars and the Dawn -- MANJU KANCHULI, The Way of a River, The Forest, Night -- FAZIL HÜSNÜ DAGLARCA, Dead -- KITAMURA, TARO, excerpts from "A Man of the Port" -- LEUNG PING-KWAN, Postcards of Old Hong Kong -- RAVI SHANKAR, Exile -- TAHA MUHAMMAD ALI, Postoperative Complications Following the Extraction of Memory -- YAN LI, Warm Inspiration -- NIRMALENDU GOON, Firearm -- PATRICK ROSAL, About the White Boys Who Drove By a Second Time to Throw a Bucket of Water on Me -- GREGORY DJANIKIAN, The Boy Who Had Eleven Toes -- CESAR RUIZ AQUINO, She Comes with Horns and Tail -- ISHIGAKI RIN, Plucking Flowers -- KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM, I Sing of Equality -- FIRUZA MAMMADLI, Leaning My Shoulder to the SunXIE YE, At Last I Turn My Back -- MOHAN KOIRÃLÃ, It's a Mineral, the Mind -- TSUJI YUKIO, Rum and Snow -- K. DHONDUP, Exile -- MOHJA KAHF, Lifting the Hagar Heel -- PURNA BAHADUR VAIDYA, Water Is Water -- WADIH SA'ADEH, Genesis -- YONG SHU HOONG, Chicago -- BOEY KIM CHENG, Wanton with James -- ISSA MAKHLOUF, We Travel -- SAQI FAROOQI, An Injured Tomcat in an Empty Sack -- ZAKARIYYA MUHAMMAD, Everything -- MUHAMMED AL-ACHA'ARI, excerpt from "Little Wars" -- SYED SHAMSUL HAQ, Poem 240 -- UNSI AL-HAJ, is This You or the Tale? -- YI SHA, excerpt from "Wonders Never Cease" -- NAZIK AL-MALA'IKA, Insignificant Woman -- MEENA ALEXANDER, Floating on Fifth -- BIMAL NIBHA, Cycle -- GIEVE PATEL, Squirrels in Washington -- SA'ADYYA MUFFAREH, excerpt from "The Spell of Blazing Trees" -- NURIT ZARHI, "For they are at the center of my life" -- WING TEK LUM, The Butcher -- AHMAD 'ABD AL-MU'TI HIJAZI, The Lonely Woman's Room -- HATIF JANABI, Paradises, Soldiers, and Stags -- LI-YOUNG LEE, Immigrant Blues -- BAROUYR SEVAG, The Analysis of Yearning (Garod) -- SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM, Scavenging on Double BluffSlips and Atmospherics -- YANG LIAN, Knowing -- RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR, Genderole -- CATHY PARK HONG, Ontology of Chang and Eng, the Original Siamese Twins -- CHE QIANZI, Sentences -- JOSÉ GARCIA VILLA, The Anchored Angel -- FATIMA MAHMOUD, excerpt from "What Was Not Conceivable" -- ARUN KOLATKAR, The Alphabet -- LAWRENCE JOSEPH, Then -- BRIAN KIM STEFANS, from The Screens -- HABIB TENGOUR, The River of the Cyclops -- PRAGEETA SHARMA, A Brazen State -- MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE, Safety -- SARAH GAMBITO, Scene: a Loom -- KATAYOON ZANDVAKILI, The Eglantine Deal -- AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, By the Light of a Single Worm -- MARILYN CHIN, Tonight While the Stars are Shimmering (New World Duet) -- JOHN YAU, In the Fourth Year of The Plague -- AHMAD DAHBOUR, The Hands Again -- LALE MÜLDÜR, 311 SERIES 2 (TURKISH RED)* -- TADA CHIMAKO, Haiku -- TAUFIQ RAFAT, Lights -- YEOW KAI CHAT, Quarterly Report No. 7: Epiphytes and Vetiver Control -- KITASONO KATUE, Oval Ghost -- TAN LIN, excerpt from BlipSoak01 -- WAFAA' LAMRANI, A Talisman -- MONICA YOUN, Stereoscopes -- BAHTIYAR VAHAPZADE, Pauses -- ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA, The World's a Printing House -- ETEL ADNAN, Insomnia -- ALAMGIR HASHMI, Snow -- ABED ISMAEL, The Poem-The Mirage -- ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM, Strategist -- MARJORIE EVASCO, Dreamweavers -- KHALED MATTAWA, Texas in the Afternoon -- TSAI YIM PUI, enchantress -- YU JIAN, excerpts from "Anthology of Notes" -- BAHA ZAIN, Language -- VIDHU AGGARWAL, Customs House -- OUYANG YU, A poem, long overdue -- JALAL EL-HAKMAOUI, You Hear Me Jim Morrison? -- B.S. MARDHEKAR, The Forests of Yellow Bamboo Trees -- PAOLO JAVIER, DJ Cam 1 -- SALIM BARAKAT, Index of Creatures -- RICARDO M. DE UNGRIA, Notations on the Prospects for Peace -- SRIKANTH REDDY, Loose Strife with Apiary -- JENNY BOULLY, from The Body -- MICHAEL ONDAATJE, Proust in the Waters

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