[PDF] Poems For The Millennium Volume One eBook

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2003-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520239548

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"This is a kind of "essence of Breton", variously translated by some of our finest writers, each of whom highlights different facets of Breton's complex work. Mark Polizzotti's useful introduction provides context and a brief analysis of the artist and his times."—Diane di Prima, author of Recollections of My Life as a Woman "Mark Polizzotti, who is a poet, a translator, and the author of the definitive biography of André Breton, has chosen stellar translations of Breton's dazzling poetry and placed it in its lively context. This shapely introduction to the life and work of André Breton is smart, concise, and exciting. I cannot imagine a better one."—Ron Padgett, poet and translator of The Complete Poems of Blaise Cendrars "The Poets for the Millennium Series generally and André Breton's Selected Works specifically offers a workable image of an author and the work and the conjuncture, all at once. What comes across is a vivid presentation of Andre Breton not just as an art czar, a manifesto merchant, but a serious, haunted, inventive and strangely profound poet of the imagination, who invented or archeologized new ways of dreaming, but insisted on bearing witness with them in the actual world. Polizzotti does justice--as I think no other writer has--to the double burden of Breton's work."—Robert Kelly "A superbly chosen selection of Breton's poetry and prose, translated in every case with an elegant intelligence, and preceded by an unusually thorough introduction showing quite exactly how the poet's life informed each epoch of his work. It proves again the remarkable un-boringness of Breton, and how important he is now to our own poetry and to us.—Mary Ann Caws, author of The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter and editor of The Surrealist Painters and Poets

Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520273850

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"Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.

Author : María Sabina
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2003-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520239531

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"María Sabina's Selected Works introduces and enhances the understanding of one of the world's most remarkable poets. Mr. Rothenberg frames her work within the larger context of 'ethnopoetics' with no academic reductionism whatsoever, a rare and indispensable service to a 'world poet' such as Maria Sabina. The translation of Maria Sabina, her 'autobiography' and her oral poetry, is exquisite, powerful, rendered with linguistic dignity."—Howard Norman "This book transmits not only a full and rich experience with one of the most extraordinary personalities and poetic voices of our time, but also a great lesson in our understanding of the relations between religious inspiration and its artistic expression. It enriches our perceptions of the nature and possibilities of oral composition, complementing what we already know of it from the study of the Homeric and other poems in its great tradition."—George Economou "María Sabina is one of the great figures of American shamanism. Her Chants is a masterpiece of indigenous visionary poetry. Her Life is the account of a woman who transcended her own culture and its material poverty to become one of the great women of the twentieth century. The veneration of her work continues beyond her death. To read her is to embark on a journey to the world of the extrasensorial."—Homero Aridjis "In the chants of María Sabina, we can appreciate the interplay of individual invention and traditional liturgy within the oral creativity of a non-literate society. The recordings of her words that have saved them from oblivion give us the opportunity to glimpse the emergence of a genius from the soil of the communal, religious folk poetry of a native Mexican campesino people."—Henry Munn

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0061869546

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From the award-winning poet and novelist—a must-have collection of his four previous books of poetry plus a selection of new, unpublished work.

Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811211093

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In Yiddish, khurbn is the word for 'total destruction, ' the word for what the English-speaking world calls the Jewish 'Holocaust' of World War II. This is the author's precisely personal, horrifying, tender, and structurally astute masterpiece, it is the great middle-length poem of our times.

Author : William Harmon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231112598

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Contains one hundred of the most anthologized poems in the English language, and includes notes, profiles of the authors, and bibliographic information; presented in chronological order with a glossary, and author, title, and first line indexes.

Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 1985-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520049128

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"Technicians of the Sacred presents 'primitive' and ancient poetries as the incantations they are, loaded with power and very full of the magic that invests all good poetry. The treatment is fascinating...the commentaries are a gold mine of responses to the material by a strong poet (the editor), and his selection of analogous writings from a broad range of contemporary poets."—David P. McAllester

Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Design
ISBN :

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By Jerome Rothenberg. Contributions by Steven Clay.