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by: Bob Holman
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781550651126
ISBN: 1550651129
Label: Vehicule Press
Manufacturer: Vehicule Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 342
Publication Date: 1998-11
Publisher: Vehicule Press
Sales Rank: 1896049
Studio: Vehicule Press
Editorial Review:
Book Description:
The best poetry being written and performed today in Canada and the United States is by an emerging generation of poets who 'fuse' the worlds of the oral and the written traditions. These are poets comfortable in print or squinting under the stage lights, whose work crosses all boundaries--performance, spoken word, Gen-X, Web-page poems, slam and MTV-style tele-poetics. Poetry Nation is the first anthology to comprehensively trace the roots of performance and spoken word --from the Beat Generation through to today's sound poets. Poetry Nation is a compelling overview of all the movements in current 'alternative' poetries, with special attention to women, gay, Black, Asian, and indigenous writers. Major figures are presented alongside the most exciting younger voices. The anthology features Allen Ginsberg's last poem, a never-collected poem by Evelyn Lau, and a newly-discovered love poem by Ian Stephens. One hundred cutting-edge poets including Sandra Cisneros, Bill Bissett, Clifton Joseph, Ras Baraka, Stan Rogal, Steven Heighton, Lynn Crosbie, Robert Priest, Nicole Blackman, David McGimpsey, Louise Bak, Golda Fried, and Hal Sirowitz.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A great sampling
This is the kind of collection that will be especially fun for young and aspiring poets to peruse and pilfer. It contains such a great variety of forms and voices that there will inevitiably be much inside that readers will love, and hate. And what more could one ask for from an anthology!
Rating: - ELLYN MAYBE and HEATHER O'NEILL ARE HOT!!!
Please buy this anthology, 'cuz it rocks! It has all of my friends in it, and me, too (Beau Sia, author A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge)! Some folks that should've been in it, aren't, but no anthology is all-inclusive (yet). My favorite poem is the one by Ginsberg. Long Live Ginsberg!
Rating:  - Poetry perfect
This is a great book. Its exciting, challenging and unforgetable. Voices from across the continent rant, sing, whisper and cry. Themes from motherhood to gaylove remind me that the muse is still alive speaking to the new generation. This book is fresh with its vigour and difference, taking risks with unknowns and congratulating the celebrities. It is real proof that many of these poets who work so well on stage (Regie Cabico, Nicole Blackman, Taylor Mali, Heather ONeil, Alexis O Hara, DJ Renegade ... Read More
Rating:  - lots of dreck, a couple gems
A wise man (actually it was Neil Peart, drummer for Rush) once wrote, "Like a teardrop in the ocean/ A diamond in the waste / Some world views are spacious / and some are merely spaced." "Spaced" is not a bad word -- though too kind -- to describe most of this collection, which subscribes to the "identify your special interest group, then rant and swear for a couple minutes" school of poetry. But if you're willing to wade through the ocean of sludge you will find a couple diamonds (to mix Peart's ... Read More
Rating: - The New Testament...
If you accept that ALOUD used to be considered the bible of spoken word, then Regie and Todd have collected the New Testament! An excellent assortment of the usual suspects with a healthy dose of poets you won't easily find elsewhere. Bravo!
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