World beat

"In World Beat, edited by the remarkable writer and translator Eliot Weinberger, a new generation of New Directions poets from across the globe mingle in a euphonic cross-cultural chorus." "The collection opens with the last poem by Octavio Paz, a major work previously unpublished in book form, and then presents the writings of twenty-three foreign and American poets. From the haunting erotic lyrics of the young Albanian poet Luljeta Lleshanaku, to the powerful political insights of exiled Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail, Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai, and Caribbean poet Kamau Brathwaite, to the lapidary beauty of Dutch poet Hans Faverey and the wild experiments of Chinese poet Gu Cheng, to Nobel Prize shortlisters Bei Dao of China, Inger Christensen of Denmark, Gennady Aygi of Chuvashia, and Tomas Transtromer of Sweden - here is a planetary greatest hits that also includes work by Canadian Anne Carson, and a range of American poets (Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, and Robert Creeley, among them) whose works take on new resonances when read alongside their world-peers. The poets are presented in ample selections so that each may be heard clearly, and biographical and bibliographical notes invite further investigation. From cover to cover, themes ebb and flow and boundaries blur as verses converse in a harmony unusual for the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.