"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 much broader, much more intelligent sweep, this anthology,
than most."--Amiri Baraka
"A riveting literary achievement of phenomenal scope and
generosity. Kudos to Rothenberg and Joris for their passionate,
discerning editorship, spanning cultures, sensibilities, and
languages. This illuminating compendium displays the best of
humanity's bardic inheritance and vision. It should be obligatory
reading for all scholars, students, writers and lovers of poetry.
May the wisdom in these poems benefit us all."--Anne Waldman, Jack
Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, The Naropa Institute
"Looking back from this end of the century we can begin to see
how partial our views of its literary happenings have been: how
time-bound, tongue-bound, often celebrity-bound. In an
accurately-titled "Poems for the Millennium we can at last sense
the scope of the Revolution of the Word that's been in process
since--oh, 1895. There's no other anthology like this one, no other
overview so venturesome."--Hugh Kenner
"This is not like any other anthology, not a collection of
excellences, no absurd imitations of a canon. It's more like a
Handbook of Inventors and Inventions, or of Explorers and
Discoveries, that opens up all sorts of pathways for poetry from
its past and future to a livingpresent. A truly international book
of modern poetry that exceeds its claims to move from the "fin de
siecle to the poets of "Negritude, as it crosses frontiers of
language and culture and genre. This may be the only collection of
modernist poetry that reveals its simultaneous connections to an
archaic and ecological past as well as a technological future, as
it also wipes out rigid distinctions between poets and painters and
sculptors and performers. It is above all a book of possibilities
and invitations.--David Antin
"The intermingling circles of poetries and cultures move outward
to continents & also open up to all times. True cosmopolitanism
loves the specifics of little places and small societies--just the
right gesture, the precise quaver of the voice, the exact variety
of maize. Rothenberg and Joris's anthology gives us, by virtue of
its organic structure and inspired choices, the possibility of a
kind of situated internationalism, what "modernism" half wanted to
become. This is a presentation of a poetics that is already here,
but imperfectly recognized. It is a sourcebook for the
future."--Gary Snyder
General
| Imprint: |
University of California Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 1995 |
| First published: |
November 1995 |
| Editors: |
Jerome Rothenberg
• Pierre Joris
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 41mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
839 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-07227-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-520-07227-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780520072275 |
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