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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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Product Description 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. From Publishers Weekly This invaluable collection, rather than gathering the most fully realized poetry of this century's first four decades, maps poetic possibility, thus demonstrating how poetry was literally remade during this period. A section of "forerunners" traces the revolutionizing of poetic intuition from Blake to Lautreamont. Italian and Russian Futurism's typographical experiments, best seen through the "manifestos" are faithfully rendered; Dada and Surrealism are correctly treated as separate movements with differing aims. Aime Cesaire's term Negritude defines a section of Black Francophone literature clearly influenced by Surrealism, but centered on its African and Caribbean beginnings. Three long "galleries," collecting poems not necessarily related by nationality or subject matter, are interspersed among the sections of explicit poetic movements. Commentaries, many on individual poets?C.P. Cavafy, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Osip Mandelstam and Pablo Neruda among them?and often in the poets' own words, give context to the unwieldy mass of these poems, many difficult to find in English. The next volume promises to show the use to which today's poets have put this rich legacy. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This massive compendium of poems and documents that define poetic modernism?the stream of experimental impulses that tested "the limits of poetry"?takes a global approach to the period 1890-1945, offering translated work by poets from Europe and the Third World as well as the United States. The first of a projected two-volume set, it showcases examples from dada, futurism, expressionism, surrealism, objectivism, and negritude, nodding frequently along the way to those never allied with any of these but who found their own paths away from the mainstream, and it establishes a common ground for the idiosyncratic voices of Apollinaire, Stein, Brecht, Jabes, Tzara, Akhmatova, and dozens of others. The editors' insightful commentaries help place each work in context. Though its inclusions and exclusions will no doubt stimulate debate, this ambitious documentary history should take its place in most poetry collections, large and small.?Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib., Ithaca, N.Y. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review “ Poems for the Millennium: Part One is . . . one of the very
