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A celebration of contemporary poetry from around the world, World International Poetry Now from New Directions is a treasure trove that will satisfy and fascinate poetry lovers. A mosaic of twenty-eight foreign and American poets, World Beat is an extraordinary compilation, unlike any other anthology, of the poetry being written today. For some seventy years, New Directions Publishing has brought literary America the world, introducing many of the world's most important, and at the time usually unknown, writers. Today, with a diminishing earth and an increasingly isolated United States, dialogue among the nations is desperately needed. On the poetic front, this dialogue assumes a particular potency and urgency. In World Beat , expertly edited by the remarkable writer and translator Eliot Weinberger, a new generation of New Directions poets from across the globe mingles 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 The collection opens with the last poem by Octavio Paz, a major work previously unpublished in book form, and then tracks through the writings of foreign and American poets that New Directions has published in recent years. From the haunting erotic lyrics of the young Albanian poe

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Author

Eliot Weinberger

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811216517

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories

Rating

3.5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14