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The World Record is an international anthology of work by poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, featuring a poem from each of the 204 Olympic nations, from Armenia to Tuvalu, Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan. With this book you can discover the world through its keenest observers, political activists, and most articulate wordsmiths. There's something for every taste: new voices as well as world greats, rappers and spoken word artists, as well as poets and storytellers. The World Record marks the first time so many living poets from so many countries have been gathered together in one anthology - and 2012 is the first time so many poets have been gathered in one place.

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This anthology is the culmination of Poetry Parnassus, an effort to compile work from poets who represented the 204 countries in competition at the Summer Olympics in London in 2012. The collection’s most resounding attribute is the great breadth of its translation of poems written originally in Gun and Fang, Kyrgyz and Malagasy, Dari, Czech, and Chinese, among others. Commensurate with its ambition, the translations vary wildly. Some have undergone translation from a poet’s native language (such as Gun) to a colonial language (such as Spanish) and finally into English. The collection includes a few familiar translators (Carolyn Forché and Marilyn Hacker) and well-known poets (Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott), but most contributors will be new to American readers. Perhaps most remarkable is the consistently political subject matter with which poets the world over choose to engage, be it personal or global, sexual or national. The somber tone and universal scope of this anthology make it a powerful, if harrowing, introduction to largely unfamiliar poetry and a welcome, if provocative, complement to the spirit of competitive celebration. --Diego Báez
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'The World Record is a unique publication, a snapshot or cross-section of global poetry from over two hundred countries. Poetry is surely one of the planet's oldest art forms, an Olympic event no less in ancient time, and during London's Olympic year of 2012 the Southbank has sought to recreate a small piece of Greece along its riverside complex, namely Mount Parnassus, home to the muses and home to Orpheus, often described as "the first poet". This ambitious anthology is not only a record of that extraordinary happening but an enduring and echoing experience, one that celebrates and honours a multitude of voices, languages and attitudes, all joined under the flag of poetry' - Simon Armitage.

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