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...
Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented sele...
Nathalie Handal is a poet, playwright, and writer. She is the author of two previous poetry collections: The NeverField and The Lives of Rain. She is the editor of The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and coeditor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, and the Literary Review, among other publications.
Nathalie Handal is a poet, playwright, and writer. She is the author of two previous poetry collections: The NeverField and The Lives of Rain. She is ...
"These plays are a cosmos of mindscapes, vast and varied in beauty, theme, style and form... And despite their multiplicity in accents, cultures and nationalities, they have an unyielding collective voice." - Nathalie Handal, from the Introduction Includes: Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi Keffiyeh/Made in China by Dalia Taha Plan D by Hannah Khalil Handala by Abdelfattah Abusrour Territories by Betty Shamieh 603 by Imad Farajin The first collection of its kind, Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the...
"These plays are a cosmos of mindscapes, vast and varied in beauty, theme, style and form... And despite their multiplicity in accents, cultures and n...
The Republics is a massively brilliant new work, a leap in literature we have not seen. It s gripping, harrowing, and at times horrific while its form paradoxically is fresh, luscious, and original. Bypassing pity and transforming pain into language Handal stars. She has recorded like Alice Walker, Paul Celan, John Hershey, and Carolyn Forche some of the worst civilization has offered humankind and somehow made it art. Sapphire"
The Republics is a massively brilliant new work, a leap in literature we have not seen. It s gripping, harrowing, and at times horrific while its form...
