Language for a new century : contemporary poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and beyond / edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar.

Parsed into Colors
DAVID AVIDAN, Dance Music
XUE DI, The Wanderer
DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN, Two Voices
JESSICA HAGEDORN, Motown/Smokey Robinson
MAMDOUH ADWAN, Tired of Soliloquies
KAMARAN MUKRI, Star, Bird & Autumn
NOOZAR ELIAS, Stars and the Dawn
MANJU KANCHULI, The Way of a River, The Forest, Night
FAZIL HÜSNÜ DAGLARCA, Dead
KITAMURA, TARO, excerpts from "A Man of the Port"
LEUNG PING-KWAN, Postcards of Old Hong Kong
RAVI SHANKAR, Exile
TAHA MUHAMMAD ALI, Postoperative Complications Following the Extraction of Memory
YAN LI, Warm Inspiration
NIRMALENDU GOON, Firearm
PATRICK ROSAL, About the White Boys Who Drove By a Second Time to Throw a Bucket of Water on Me
GREGORY DJANIKIAN, The Boy Who Had Eleven Toes
CESAR RUIZ AQUINO, She Comes with Horns and Tail
ISHIGAKI RIN, Plucking Flowers
KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM, I Sing of Equality
FIRUZA MAMMADLI, Leaning My Shoulder to the Sun.

XIE YE, At Last I Turn My Back
MOHAN KOIRÃLÃ, It's a Mineral, the Mind
TSUJI YUKIO, Rum and Snow
K. DHONDUP, Exile
MOHJA KAHF, Lifting the Hagar Heel
PURNA BAHADUR VAIDYA, Water Is Water
WADIH SA'ADEH, Genesis
YONG SHU HOONG, Chicago
BOEY KIM CHENG, Wanton with James
ISSA MAKHLOUF, We Travel
SAQI FAROOQI, An Injured Tomcat in an Empty Sack
ZAKARIYYA MUHAMMAD, Everything
MUHAMMED AL-ACHA'ARI, excerpt from "Little Wars"
SYED SHAMSUL HAQ, Poem 240
UNSI AL-HAJ, is This You or the Tale?
YI SHA, excerpt from "Wonders Never Cease"
NAZIK AL-MALA'IKA, Insignificant Woman
MEENA ALEXANDER, Floating on Fifth
BIMAL NIBHA, Cycle
GIEVE PATEL, Squirrels in Washington
SA'ADYYA MUFFAREH, excerpt from "The Spell of Blazing Trees"
NURIT ZARHI, "For they are at the center of my life"
WING TEK LUM, The Butcher
AHMAD 'ABD AL-MU'TI HIJAZI, The Lonely Woman's Room
HATIF JANABI, Paradises, Soldiers, and Stags
LI-YOUNG LEE, Immigrant Blues
BAROUYR SEVAG, The Analysis of Yearning (Garod)
SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM, Scavenging on Double Bluff.

Slips and Atmospherics
YANG LIAN, Knowing
RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR, Genderole
CATHY PARK HONG, Ontology of Chang and Eng, the Original Siamese Twins
CHE QIANZI, Sentences
JOSÉ GARCIA VILLA, The Anchored Angel
FATIMA MAHMOUD, excerpt from "What Was Not Conceivable"
ARUN KOLATKAR, The Alphabet
LAWRENCE JOSEPH, Then
BRIAN KIM STEFANS, from The Screens
HABIB TENGOUR, The River of the Cyclops
PRAGEETA SHARMA, A Brazen State
MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE, Safety
SARAH GAMBITO, Scene: a Loom
KATAYOON ZANDVAKILI, The Eglantine Deal
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, By the Light of a Single Worm
MARILYN CHIN, Tonight While the Stars are Shimmering (New World Duet)
JOHN YAU, In the Fourth Year of The Plague
AHMAD DAHBOUR, The Hands Again
LALE MÜLDÜR, 311 SERIES 2 (TURKISH RED)*
TADA CHIMAKO, Haiku
TAUFIQ RAFAT, Lights
YEOW KAI CHAT, Quarterly Report No. 7: Epiphytes and Vetiver Control
KITASONO KATUE, Oval Ghost
TAN LIN, excerpt from BlipSoak01
WAFAA' LAMRANI, A Talisman
MONICA YOUN, Stereoscopes
BAHTIYAR VAHAPZADE, Pauses
ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA, The World's a Printing House
ETEL ADNAN, Insomnia
ALAMGIR HASHMI, Snow
ABED ISMAEL, The Poem-The Mirage
ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM, Strategist
MARJORIE EVASCO, Dreamweavers
KHALED MATTAWA, Texas in the Afternoon
TSAI YIM PUI, enchantress
YU JIAN, excerpts from "Anthology of Notes"
BAHA ZAIN, Language
VIDHU AGGARWAL, Customs House
OUYANG YU, A poem, long overdue
JALAL EL-HAKMAOUI, You Hear Me Jim Morrison?
B.S. MARDHEKAR, The Forests of Yellow Bamboo Trees
PAOLO JAVIER, DJ Cam 1
SALIM BARAKAT, Index of Creatures
RICARDO M. DE UNGRIA, Notations on the Prospects for Peace
SRIKANTH REDDY, Loose Strife with Apiary
JENNY BOULLY, from The Body
MICHAEL ONDAATJE, Proust in the Waters.