Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond Condition:Good is ready to lash out

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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond Condition:Good is ready to lash outA landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available. 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