PIW 1 january 2011
Happy New Year to all our readers! Our first issue of 2011 presents six fantastic poets: on the Israel domain, Dan Pagis, whose Hebrew-language poetry engages in dialogue with German Romantic and neo-Romantic traditions; Anat Zecharya, a young poet who forthrightly expresses women's desires, examining the power dynamics between sex and politics; and Yair Hurwitz, whose poems look at the interplay of death and language, the way poetry can console and act as a communicative bridge between the dead and the living. The PIW USA domain brings us Jane Hirshfield, whose Zen poetry celebrates small details and fleeting moments; Dean Young, who combines extravagant imagery and freely-associative leaps of thought in unique, collage-like poems of great energy and humour; and Yusef Komunyakaa, whose work here includes a series of imaginative poetic interpretations of the deadly sins.
Read the full editorial, articles, poems and translations in the current issue of PIW at www.poetryinternationalweb.org
Later this month . . .
We return on January 15 with poems in Japanese written by Chinese-born poet Tian Yuan, along with English translations by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura. We'll also give you a taste of what's to come in our special 27 January issue celebrating National Poetry Day in the Netherlands and Flanders, in which you'll find new poems by Remco Campert, translated into English by Donald Gardner especially for PIW.
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