Poems for the Millennium, Vol. Pierre Joris Goodreads Author Editor. International in its coverage, these volumes depart from the established poetic modes th As we come to the end of the century, the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Paperback , pages. Poems for the Millennium: From Fin-de-Siecle to Negritude v. Poems for the Millennium 1. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Poems for the Millennium, Vol. Be the first to ask a question about Poems for the Millennium, Vol.
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May 01, C. Both volumes are indispensable. There are some anthologies we must take the time to delve into, despite what we think.
Volumes One and Two of Joris and Rothenberg's Poems for the Millennium are essential to understanding the shifts in the floor of poetry. It's there, in there, you cannot deny it, and these two books hold it out for a closer look with so Both volumes are indispensable. It's there, in there, you cannot deny it, and these two books hold it out for a closer look with some of the best commentary, and arrangement of the most radical branches on the world tree of poetry.
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Typically I take my time with volumes of poetry. I tend to have one author or anthology going at all times as a kind of marginal supplement to my main reading focus. Indeed, that is how I initially approached this volume. Very quickly, however, I found all my other reading displaced by this intelligent and inspired collection of verse, which spans the most significant pre-World War II movements in poetry.
The selection of poets and the deft commentary by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris are so Typically I take my time with volumes of poetry. The selection of poets and the deft commentary by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris are so well accomplished I was actually a little disappointed when I came to the end of this page tome. Fortunately there are two more volumes picking up where this one leaves off. I really can't recommend this enough to anyone. Not just poetry geeks. This book is that good.
It takes a poet like Gertrude Stein and drops her in the midst of a context that makes works like Tender Buttons not seem so out of reach or discouraging. It will open up entire worlds for you.
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Without a doubt the best poetry anthology I've ever encountered. The selections range far beyond the ordinary western-centric bias. Not to mention the arrangement into "galleries". Honestly, this is as good as it gets. May 01, Jeff rated it it was amazing. An indispensable collection of poetry from the familiar to the avant-garde. Nov 14, Erik Akre rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: It's dizzying and crazy, and the reader follows the poets-madmen through the upheaval of artistic sensibility that characterized the first half of the 20th century.
If any book can truly describe in words the changes that came about during that time, this book does it. Many of the poems must be followed as if following in the total darkness, relying only on sounds and expression. Some of the poems tantalize with imagery that shifts and changes at the whim of sanity's very edge. Others are more coherent, and some of them at least a little familiar to the less-experienced poetry reader i. I would recommend it as an historical survey of aesthetic and artistic sensibility, but how I really enjoyed it was poem by poem, over months of coming back to it.
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Each poem is its own world, and many of these worlds offered alien landscapes to explore fruitfully. Some were completely dark, or thoroughly noisy, or uncomfortably insane as well. This book is a very constructive challenge for the general reader, if she can keep with it and be attentive through the poetry that goes beyond any conscious comprehensibility. Dec 17, Amy rated it did not like it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it, click here. I did n0t like this book - at all. In all, this was the worst poetry anthology I've ever seen, much less read. What a huge waste of time. Sep 09, K rated it really liked it. Some amazing stuff and I think it is one of the best anthologies I've ever had. I think the surrealism section was my favorite but there is something for everyone in this book. Awesome introduction to turn of century to pre-WWI avant-garde poets, mostly outside the canon.
Dada and surrealist greats and so many amazing poems breaking open language and keeping it really really fresh. Festive holly draped on the hearth, Wistful mistletoe is hanging from the frame. Angels on the tree dance in the lights of Christmas, Your lonely soul expires like a candle in its flame.
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The Ale warms your blood through, Vodka lights your soul and dims your mind. Once more the old question haunts you, Can you afford to be kind? Are you worthy of those who love you? To yourself have you been true? Your life has something missing, And the missing piece is you. New year, new century and a new millennium, yet the old slavery remains the same. Empires built by the craftsmen's hand, monuments forever across the land. Memories of events that last and last, heroes and legends from the past. Art, science, inventions and sound, all the stars the world has found. Men of vision, who had a dream, sporting giants - stars of screen.
Songs that will never fade away, The Beatles, love and yesterday, History, medicine, space and time, all the worlds' clocks are waiting to chime. A new dawn - has begun, racing toward the Millennium.
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I'm dreaming of the Mandledome in all its glorious splendour all our tinsel town politicians heading off to another bender the emperor dresses in new clothes he found on tracey emin's bed Michaelangelo is pissing himself looking at a dead sheep in a jar while Buster 'one take' Keaton smiles and shakes his head false prophets on the take with jam on new Jerusalem scones and lager cans littering the streets In the age of enlightement Bill the conqueror yields to Ronald the burger king roll over Rule Britannia move over cool Britannia daffy duck rules the airwaves poet laureates do as they must knighthoods await backhanders heroes and villians call a truce El Harrod and Hamilton bury the hatchet and the saviour has come as the messiah with the mercedes courtesy of Lottery UK plc.
As calendar cogs whirl and 99 turns to 00 The Millennium Mall's open for 24 hour trading And the Big Bugaboo's got it all in his sack for grabs: Rent-a-womb services, albums of cute kiddie porn pics, Court perjury on demand, personalised airbrushing, Made-to-measure spin-doctoring, All-purpose ethnic cleansing lotion, even hack poetry - Each at a specially inflated neo-capitalistic seasonal price. Yes folks, the muse girls have recently had a Sunday Magazine makeover: Calliope, ex-epic leader, is a latterday tawdry tinsel whirligig.
Clio, once in charge of heroic verse, has become a compact car. Thalia's pastoral poems have been cut back to green belt rhymes. Erato, doyenne of erotic poetry, has sunk to dealing in dirty limericks. Polyhymnia, lyricist supreme, is currently writing advertising jingles. In this stripped-pine kitchen-sink school of poetasting Our word-defying world is bathetically reduced to A cabbage boiling in a pan of beaded green water, Or a glazed christmas pudding revolving in the microwave's glare.
Where once Shakespearosaurus and Miltoniraptor roamed the hills Now cockroach feet patter round crumbs in the pantry.