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Poems for the Millennium, Volume One: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry: From Fin-De-Siècle to Negritude

Poems for the Millennium, Volume One: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry: From Fin-De-Siècle to Negritude

Joris, Pierre
Rothenberg, Jerome

Paperback

Series: Poets for the Millennium (Paperback), Book 1

Literary CriticismPoetry Anthologies

ISBN10: 0520072278
ISBN13: 9780520072275
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 24 1995
Pages: 839
Weight: 2.50
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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