Poems for the Millennium, Volume Two - (Poets for the Millennium (Paperback)) by Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre Joris (Paperback)
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Highlights
- As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed.
- About the Author: Jerome Rothenberg is a poet and one of the world's leading anthologists.
- 912 Pages
- Poetry, Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Series Name: Poets for the Millennium (Paperback)
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About the Book
This book reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of contemporary poetry. "The word anthology hardly does justice to Rothenberg and Joris's brilliant reconceptualization of twentieth-century poetry in a global context".--Marjorie Perloff. 41 illustrations.Book Synopsis
As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of contemporary poetry. International in its coverage, these volumes bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. Volume 2 offers a dazzling chronicle of the second "great awakening" of experimental poetry in the twentieth century. Ranging from the period of World War II through the cold war to the onset of the twenty-first century, this volume presents two "galleries" of individual poets such as Holan, Olson, Rukeyser, Jabès, Celan, Mac Low, Pasolini, Bachmann, Finlay, Ginsberg, Adonis, Rich, U Tam'si, Baraka, Takahashi, Waldman, and Bei Dao. There are also samplings of local and international movements: the Beats, the Vienna Group, the Cobra poets and artists, the Arabic-language Tammuzi poets, the creators of a new "Concrete Poetry," the "postwar poets" of Japan, the Italian Novissimi and Avan-Guardia, the Chinese Misty Poets, and the North American Language Poets. In addition, an extended section is devoted to examples of the "art of the manifesto" and two smaller groupings of traditional "oral poets" and of experimenters with machine art and cyberpoetics. Poet-editors Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris provide informative and irreverent commentaries throughout. They challenge old truths and propose alternative directions, in the tradition of the manifestos that have marked the art and poetry of the twentieth century. The result is both an essential resource for experiencing the full range of contemporary poetic possibilities and an arresting statement on the future of poetry in the millennium ahead.From the Back Cover
Praise for Volume 1: "The word anthology hardly does justice to Rothenberg and Joris's brilliant reconceptualization of twentieth-century poetry in a global context. This is that rare book that forces us to rethink what the poetic is and can be." --Marjorie Perloff "This book is destined to become a fundamental resource for the study of twentieth-century literature and culture. Its importance cannot be overstated."--Charles Bernstein "A sourcebook for the future."--Gary Snyder "Brilliant revision in the most basic of senses of all we'd thought was 'poetry of the twentieth century.'"--Robert CreeleyReview Quotes
"A massive anthology of avant-garde, experimental, non-traditional, ground-breaking, envelope-pushing poetry and poetic prose that covers the whole waterfront of post-Victorian writing."-- "Los Angeles Weekly"
"A radical new interpretation of twentieth-century poetry's movement and movements."-- "Booklist"
"Presenting an astonishing amount of exciting poetry--as did Volume I: From Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude--this collection freely crosses national and aesthetic boundaries. . . . As an introduction to the many avant-gardes of the second half of the century, and a revision of current thinking about canonization--the 'what's in' and 'what's out' of mainstream anthologies--the value of this international gatecrasher cannot be underestimated."-- "Publishers Weekly"
About the Author
Jerome Rothenberg is a poet and one of the world's leading anthologists. His more than fifty books include Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania (California, 1985). He is Professor of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Pierre Joris is a poet and has published over twenty books and chapbooks of poetry as well as many anthologies and translations. He is Professor of English at the State University of New York, Albany.Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x 2.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.55 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 912
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Anthologies (multiple authors)
Series Title: Poets for the Millennium (Paperback)
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre Joris
Language: English
Street Date: April 21, 1998
TCIN: 94349998
UPC: 9780520208643
Item Number (DPCI): 247-42-0729
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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