Atlas Poetica 19: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka

Poets from Iran to Indonesia and Nepal to Sri Lanka and the Diaspora have contributed a wide range of tanka poems. Scenes of beauty and spirituality unfold, but underneath is the uneasy awareness that reality is not so quaint. Rosy visions are accompanied by the ashes of loss. Wherever they are from and whatever their background, the poets flit back and forth across boundaries that mean so much in terms of politics and possibilities, but do so with the realization that all such borders are arbitrary. Beneath it all we share a common humanity.