Language for a New Century

Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond

By: Tina Chang (Editor), Nathalie Handal (Editor), Ravi Shankar (Editor)

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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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A Note on Surnames	p. 1
In the Grasp of Childhood Fields	p. 1
Ode to My Mother's Hair	p. 9
Elegy for Pure Music	p. 11
Exile House	p. 14
Directions to My Imaginary Childhood	p. 15
Homework	p. 16
String Theory	p. 17
In Praise of Goldberg	p. 18
"Our cries, she used to say"	p. 19
The Road Back	p. 20
The Blue Flower	p. 20
Suzhou Park	p. 21
The Shaping Clay	p. 22
Overhearing Water	p. 23
Turning Point	p. 25
Proof	p. 27
Eskimo Paradise	p. 29
Practical Aim	p. 32
In My Mother's Dream	p. 33
A Child Who Returned from There Told Us	p. 37
The Habit of Hunger	p. 39
Tiger skins	p. 40
My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task	p. 41
Things That Are Full of Pleasure -	p. 42
Dismantling the Wayang Stage	p. 43
from Bodhinabha: The Sky Vision	p. 44
"The portrait of the father"	p. 44
The Age of My Father	p. 45
The Walk	p. 45
Depths of Field	p. 47
Parsed into Colors	p. 49
Dance Music	p. 58
The Wanderer	p. 58
Two Voices	p. 61
Motown/Smokey Robinson	p. 63
Tired of Soliloquies	p. 64
Star, Bird & Autumn	p. 65
Stars and the Dawn	p. 65
The Way of a River, The Forest, Night	p. 66
Dead	p. 67
excerpts from "A Man of the Port"	p. 68
Postcards of Old Hong Kong	p. 70
Exile	p. 71
Postoperative Complications Following the Extraction of Memory	p. 72
Warm Inspiration	p. 73
Firearm	p. 74
About the White Boys Who Drove By a Second Time to Throw a Bucket of Water on Me	p. 75
The Boy Who Had Eleven Toes	p. 76
She Comes with Horns and Tail	p. 78
Plucking Flowers	p. 78
I Sing of Equality	p. 79
Leaning My Shoulder to the Sun	p. 81
At Last I Turn My Back	p. 81
It's a Mineral, the Mind	p. 82
Rum and Snow	p. 83
Exile	p. 84
Lifting the Hagar Heel	p. 84
Water Is Water	p. 85
Genesis	p. 86
Chicago	p. 86
Wanton with James	p. 87
We Travel	p. 88
An Injured Tomcat in an Empty Sack	p. 89
Everything	p. 90
excerpt from "Little Wars"	p. 91
Poem 240	p. 92
Is This You or the Tale?	p. 93
excerpt from "Wonders Never Cease"	p. 95
Insignificant Woman	p. 96
Floating on Fifth	p. 97
Cycle	p. 98
Squirrels in Washington	p. 99
excerpt from "The Spell of Blazing Trees"	p. 100
"For they are at the center of my life"	p. 101
The Butcher	p. 103
The Lonely Woman's Room	p. 106
Paradises, Soldiers, and Stags	p. 108
Immigrant Blues	p. 109
The Analysis of Yearning (Garod)	p. 110
Scavenging on Double Bluff	p. 112
Slips and Atmospherics	p. 115
Knowing	p. 124
Genderole	p. 126
Ontology of Chang and Eng, the Original Siamese Twins	p. 127
Sentences	p. 129
The Anchored Angel	p. 130
excerpt from "What Was Not Conceivable"	p. 132
The Alphabet	p. 133
Then	p. 134
from The Screens	p. 135
The River of the Cyclops	p. 137
A Brazen State	p. 138
Safety	p. 138
Scene: a Loom	p. 140
The Eglantine Deal	p. 140
By the Light of a Single Worm	p. 142
Tonight While the Stars are Shimmering (New World Duet)	p. 143
In the Fourth Year of The Plague	p. 144
The Hands Again	p. 146
311 Series 2 (Turkish Red)*	p. 146
Haiku	p. 148
Lights	p. 150
Quarterly Report No. 7: Epiphytes and Vetiver Control	p. 151
Oval Ghost	p. 152
excerpt from BlipSoak01	p. 153
A Talisman	p. 155
Stereoscopes	p. 156
Pauses	p. 157
The World's a Printing House	p. 157
Insomnia	p. 159
Snow	p. 161
The Poem - The Mirage	p. 163
Strategist	p. 164
Dreamweavers	p. 165
Texas in the Afternoon	p. 166
enchantress	p. 167
excerpts from "Anthology of Notes"	p. 168
Language	p. 171
Customs House	p. 171
A poem, long overdue	p. 173
You Hear Me Jim Morrison?	p. 174
The Forests of Yellow Bamboo Trees	p. 175
DJ Caml	p. 176
Index of Creatures	p. 177
Notations on the Prospects for Peace	p. 179
Loose Strife with Apiary	p. 182
from The Body	p. 182
Proust in the Waters	p. 187
Earth of Drowned Gods	p. 189
America, America	p. 197
A Word for Freedom	p. 201
Gigante	p. 202
I Could Forget All This	p. 204
After Long Thinking	p. 205
Spiritus Mundi	p. 206
An Argument About Horses	p. 208
My Freedom	p. 210
In the Labor Market at Giang Vo	p. 211
Flying Garbage	p. 212
Our Land	p. 213
White Lie	p. 215
Crow-Shooters	p. 215
nothin to waste	p. 216
Amazing Grace	p. 217
Python in the Mall	p. 219
Ahalya	p. 220
excerpt from "Return"	p. 221
Give me Bhaat, Bastard	p. 222
Eating Fried Chicken	p. 224
From Exile to Exile	p. 224
Letters from Exile	p. 225
Apology to Orhan Pamuk	p. 226
Facing a Nation	p. 227
A Moral Climate	p. 228
A Dusty Skull	p. 229
The Silenced	p. 230
Dark Associations	p. 231
Thinking American	p. 231
Trembling	p. 232
Signature	p. 233
A Woman Reflects on Mutability	p. 234
Politics	p. 236
At the Back of Progress...	p. 237
The Poet's Voice	p. 238
Hill Station	p. 239
When People Rise from Cheese, Statement #1	p. 241
At the Staircase	p. 241
Fallen Leaves	p. 242
In Jerusalem	p. 245
The Disappearances	p. 246
Buffaloes Under Dark Water	p. 249
The Islands	p. 259
Physics	p. 259
Sun Mass	p. 262
[section]	p. 262
Many Are Called	p. 263
Blue	p. 265
Tercets from The Book of Revelation	p. 266
Proximity	p. 271
Rain and Storm	p. 272
Haiku	p. 273
The Poson Moon	p. 274
The Sentry at Mutianyu Speaks to the Astronaut	p. 275
A Dream	p. 276
Vertigo	p. 276
All of Them	p. 277
The Wedding	p. 277
Labrador Tea	p. 279
Scoop Up the Sea	p. 280
Gathering Storm	p. 280
The Dead Boy	p. 282
excerpt from "Signs"	p. 283
White Moon	p. 283
A Thin Line	p. 284
The Poet's Lunch	p. 285
The Rest of the Poem	p. 285
Horse	p. 285
excerpt from "Tales of a Severed Head"	p. 286
Mohn Des Gedachtnis	p. 287
Weeping	p. 288
Woman Translating, or La Belle Infidele	p. 289
Night Scene	p. 290
Travel Again - The Time I Am Heading For Is May	p. 291
To Scuttle the Moon	p. 292
Blue Rays	p. 292
excerpt from "Butterfly Valley"	p. 294
The Deserted Cafe	p. 295
Night	p. 296
Origin & Ash	p. 296
A Place Like Water	p. 298
Climbing Mt. Iraya	p. 299
Carpet Garden	p. 301
from The Wolf Girls of Midnapure	p. 302
The Wolves Are Roaring	p. 304
Crocodiles	p. 305
Four Poems from Panjore DanRer Shabda (Oars in My Ribs)	p. 306
Song	p. 307
The Black Hen	p. 307
A Revisit	p. 308
Sky	p. 308
Moth	p. 309
It Can't Ever See - The Sky	p. 310
About	p. 311
excerpts from "Turtle Island Aria II"	p. 312
Of Sea Wayfarers	p. 313
Spider	p. 314
She Who Threads the Skies	p. 315
The City of Wrecked Ships	p. 315
Antelope	p. 316
Depth: A Sonnet	p. 317
Autobiography of Night	p. 318
excerpt from "What Some Are Saying About The Body"	p. 318
Apostrophe in the Scripture	p. 321
Angina Pectoris	p. 330
Gujarat 2002	p. 331
excerpts from "Diary of Beirut Under Siege, 1982"	p. 331
excerpts from "Eulogy World"	p. 333
Nallur, 1982	p. 334
Camouflage Costumes	p. 336
Burning Eden One Branch at a Time	p. 337
Bomb Crater Sky	p. 337
Casa Blanca 1991	p. 338
Once Again the Mind	p. 340
I Was Not One of the Six Million. And What Is the Span of My Life? Open Shut Open	p. 341
Pham Hong Thai	p. 344
A Kind of Happiness	p. 344
The Pecan Leaves	p. 345
Black Horses	p. 347
Lineup	p. 349
Recital	p. 350
North South East West	p. 353
excerpts from "Letter in Winter"	p. 354
Mindful Breathing	p. 357
Coming Home at Night	p. 358
Blow Job	p. 359
At Least	p. 359
Blind Boats	p. 360
Greatest Wish Song	p. 361
One Evening in a Cafe	p. 362
Time Consoled in the Stone	p. 363
Eleven Rudras	p. 364
The Fall of Culture	p. 366
If There Were No War	p. 367
Into Olive Leaves	p. 368
In Answer to Father's Letter	p. 370
South	p. 371
One Morning, in the LA Times	p. 373
Ssitkim Kut - A wandering spirit's song	p. 374
The Word PEACE	p. 375
War Symphony	p. 376
This House, My Bones	p. 377
A Blank Letter	p. 386
Just Words	p. 386
Banalata Sen	p. 388
excerpts from "Misfortune"	p. 389
Lucky Men	p. 392
Beyond the Seven Hills	p. 393
excerpt from 'An Inquest"	p. 395
Kathmandu	p. 395
Homeland, Once More, I'll Build You	p. 398
Cedars	p. 399
The Story of My Country	p. 400
Chikin Hekka	p. 401
Deathsleep	p. 402
Summer Roof	p. 404
Cursed House	p. 405
Ode to Bombay	p. 406
In Water	p. 406
The Wey	p. 407
On Encountering Sorrow	p. 408
No One Belonging to Me	p. 414
The Dump	p. 415
Small	p. 415
excerpts from Against the Wilderness	p. 417
Black Map	p. 418
Washing the Grain	p. 419
POP SONG 1 "At Home in Hong Kong" 1964	p. 420
Carpet Weaver	p. 421
Istanbul	p. 422
Filipineza	p. 423
The Eastern Poem	p. 424
Ma'reb Speaks	p. 425
Two Voices	p. 425
Your Hands Guide Me Through Trains	p. 427
Train Station	p. 428
Midday	p. 429
I Want My Soil Back	p. 430
The Father	p. 430
Gondwana Rocks	p. 431
Jeepney	p. 432
In the Third Country	p. 434
Bedouin	p. 435
In the Arab House	p. 436
Eighteen Haiku for Xiamen	p. 437
The Neighbor's Geese	p. 439
Kabul Behind My Window	p. 441
At the Hamlet of Gulestaneh	p. 442
The Black Room	p. 443
A Tale	p. 444
Mandelstam in Armenia, 1930	p. 445
Desert Years	p. 446
The Korean Community Garden	p. 448
The Nomad III	p. 450
Dying for a Himalayan Dream	p. 450
This House, My Bones	p. 451
Bowl of Air and Shivers	p. 455
To God	p. 464
One more say	p. 464
A Vision of St. Clare	p. 465
Tian Qiao / Sky Bridge	p. 466
How Middle-Eastern Singing Was Born	p. 467
Quietly	p. 469
A Tale	p. 469
excerpts from Flowers of a Moment	p. 470
Natural Science Teacher	p. 474
The forest last day	p. 474
A Scream	p. 476
Phosphorus	p. 477
Song of Krishna (5)	p. 478
Foreign Flags	p. 479
The Hill	p. 480
Beginning	p. 481
Reunion	p. 482
Stammer	p. 484
Grand Days Have Gone By Her	p. 485
Seven Sparks	p. 486
Tuvia	p. 487
excerpt from "Tutka Roi Sai (Sand Trace Doll)"	p. 489
Sacred River	p. 489
Valley of Marvels	p. 490
Yamoussoukro, With Cathedral	p. 491
Midnight, on the Fifth Day of the Fourth Month in the Tibetan Calendar	p. 494
Breaking Karma	p. 495
Retaliation	p. 496
Clouds	p. 497
excerpt from "The Wolf's Hour"	p. 498
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