Today’s show is readings from Angry Voices: An Anthology of the off-Beat New Egyptian Poets, a collection of poets who have grown up during the Mubarak era. The book appeared in 2003 from the University of Arkansas Press and was edited by Mohamed Enani. This is from the editor’s introduction to the book:
The voices in this collection are not “angry”
in the sense of being enraged. Rather I have
dubbed them ‘angry’ in the sense of
rebellion. In one way or another, each of
these poets is rebelling against deeply
entrenched customs–linguistic, metrical,
formal, or social…They stand, as it were, in
the eye of a hurricane. Their main
innovation is breaking with the established order.