Books : Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Vol. 1: From Fin-de-Siecle to Negritude
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.81
EAN: 9780520072275
ISBN: 0520072278
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 839
Publication Date: November 24, 1995
Publisher: University of California Press
Sales Rank: 511697
Studio: University of California Press
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As we come to the end of the century, 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 twentieth-century poetry. International in its coverage, these volumes depart from the established poetic modes that grew out of the nineteenth century and instead bring together the movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition.
The first volume offers three 'galleries' of individual poets--figures such as Mallarmé, Stein, Rilke, Tzara, Mayakovsky, Pound, H.D., Vallejo, Artaud, Césaire, and Tsvetayeva. Included, too, are sections dedicated to some of the most significant pre-World War II movements in poetry and the other arts: Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Objectivism, and Negritude. The second volume will extend the gathering to the present, forming a synthesizing, global anthology that surpasses other collections in its international scope and experimental range.
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 revolutionary manifestos that have marked the art and poetry of the twentieth century. The result is both an essential source book for experiencing the full range of this century's poetic possibilities and a powerful statement on the future of poetry in the millennium ahead.
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Rating:  - The Best Contemporary Anthology
Rothenberg and Joris have assembled an absolutely stunning collection of modernist and postmodern poets in this fat volume. Not only has he included some well-known but seldom anthologized writers like Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, but he has included Fluxus artist/writers like Dick Higgins, Jackson Mac Low, Emmett Williams and many other important, but lesser-known poets. Nearly every poet that one would expect to find in a good anthology is to be found - and many people and writers that one might ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing
This book has become my bible. The selections is incredible, there are poems, manifestos, and commentary. The Olson, Duncan, Creeley, John Cage, and Nathanial Mackey selections are very impressive. After obtaining this book I realized how important it is that I have taken a class taught by Professor Joris. JerryRothenberg is, of course, also an amazing poet and this work shows this dedication to the field.
Great for beginners, students, and veterans alike.
Rating: - Filled to the brim with poetry
Both of these volumes are tremendous works illustrating a wide range of poetry from a wide range of voices. I love how the sections are delineated, and there is a wealth of information about poets, poems, schools of thought and poetics along with the actual poems. I learned a lot about poetry just by reading these two volumes. This is truly an example of wonderful, dedicated editing.
Rating: - poetry? you bet!
if you get this volume you have to get the first volume and the OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN POETRY. if modern american poetry is something that gets you goin, then these volumes are for you.
rothenberg does a great job of introducing and giving information, critiques, etc of the poetry encased in these volumes.
dig it, man. dig it.
Rating: - A very detailed book dedicated to poetry
Personally I found that this book was very informative and aimed towards the people who are involved in poetry so it was more on a level basis that gives numerous examples of different types.
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