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Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Vol. 2: From Postwar to Millennium Paperback – April 21, 1998

by Jerome Rothenberg (Editor), Pierre Joris (Editor)
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As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that 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 contemporary poetry. International in its coverage, these volumes bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. Volume 2 offers a dazzling chronicle of the second "great awakening" of experimental poetry in the twentieth century. Ranging from the period of World War II through the cold war to the onset of the twenty-first century, this volume presents two "galleries" of individual poets such as Holan, Olson, Rukeyser, Jabès, Celan, Mac Low, Pasolini, Bachmann, Finlay, Ginsberg, Adonis, Rich, U Tam'si, Baraka, Takahashi, Waldman, and Bei Dao. There are also samplings of local and international movements: the Beats, the Vienna Group, the Cobra poets and artists, the Arabic-language Tammuzi poets, the creators of a new "Concrete Poetry," the "postwar poets" of Japan, the Italian Novissimi and Avan-Guardia, the Chinese Misty Poets, and the North American Language Poets. In addition, an extended section is devoted to examples of the "art of the manifesto" and two smaller groupings of traditional "oral poets" and of experimenters with machine art and cyberpoetics. 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 manifestos that have marked the art and poetry of the twentieth century. The result is both an essential resource for experiencing the full range of contemporary poetic possibilities and an arresting statement on the future of poetry in the millennium ahead.
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YA-This collection includes poetry from post-World War II through the Cold War and its aftermath. The poets are well known and there is a wide representation of voices. Individual poets and movements are featured: Pablo Neruda, John Cage, the Tammuzi poets, postwar Japanese poetry, "Language" poets, "Concrete" poets, "Beat" poets, Maggie O'Sullivan, James Joyce, and many others. Unlike many anthologies that highlight only a few poets with a certain perspective, this is an objective anthology of the best of this period. A must-purchase for any collection.
Linda A. Vretos, West Springfield High School, Springfield, VA
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Any anthology of this sizeA857 pages in its prepublication formAnecessarily disarms criticism. How can anything coherent be said about hundreds of poets and a thousand poems? Drawing for this second volume (see LJ 10/1/95 for a review of the first) upon poets as familiar as Anne Sexton and Robert Duncan but also upon translations from the Japanese and Greek, the textual art of Tom Phillips, and the lyrics of Tom Waits, editors Rothenberg and Joris want not so much to make one statement through the voices of many poets as to pass along the overheard fragments of the endless poetic conversations of this century. Because so much that is considered essential in modern poetry is excludedAthere is no Ashbery, no Heaney, no Plath, to name a few-this anthology should not be any reader's introduction to the art. But the editors' introduction, and many learned notes on the poets, full of principled, anti-traditionalist, postmodern statements, are both entertaining and provocative and certain to exert an influence on young poets. For larger collections of contemporary literature.AGraham Christian, Andover-Harvard Theological Lib., Cambridge, MA
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; First Edition (April 21, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 912 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520208641
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520208643
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.6 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 2 x 9 inches
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Pierre Joris, while raised in Luxembourg, has moved between Europe, the US & North Africa for over half a century now, publishing more than 80 books of poetry, essays, translations & anthologies — most recently Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021), both from Contra Mundum Press., Arabia (not so) Deserta (Essays, Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2019); Conversations in the Pyrenees with Adonis (CMP 2018), and The Book of U (poems, with Nicole Peyrafitte, Editions Simoncini); Microliths: Posthumous Prose of Paul Celan (CMP), Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan (FSG) & Fox-trails, -tales & -trots (poems & proses) from Black Fountain Press.

Other recent books include a translation of Egyptian poet Safaa Fathy’s Revolution Goes Through Walls (SplitLevel); The University of California Book of North African Literature (volume 4 in the Poems for the Millennium series, coedited with Habib Tengour, 2012); Bernat Manciet: Ode to James Dean (translated by PJ & Nicole Peyrafitte) from mindmade books (L.A.), Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj (poems) from Chax Press (also out now in an Arabic translation by Safaa Fathy in Cairo), and Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader edited & translated by Joris.

Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-between, essays on Joris' work edited by Peter Cockelbergh, came out in 2012, with essays on Joris' work by, among others, Mohamed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Jean Portante, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff & Nicole Peyrafitte (Litteraria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, 2011). It is available now for free download via this link: https://litterariapragensia.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/cartographies_pierre-joris_peter-cockelbergh.pdf

His The Meridian: Final Version--Drafts--Materials by Paul Celan (Stanford U.P. 2011) was awarded the 2013 MLA Aldo & Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry. Other recent books include The Meridian: Final Version--Drafts--Materials by Paul Celan (Stanford U.P. 2011), Canto Diurno #4: The Tang Extending from the Blade, (poems, 2010), Justifying the Margins: Essays 1990-2006 (Salt Books), Aljibar I & II (poems) & the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar; Ta'wil Productions). Further translations include Paul Celan: Selections (UC Press) & Lightduress by Paul Celan which received the 2005 PEN Poetry Translation Award. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry.

When not traveling for readings & performances, he lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn with his wife, multimedia praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte Check out his Nomadics Blog (http://pierrejoris.com/blog).

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5.0 out of 5 stars poems for the millenium.
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This book is perfect for my course it is helping me a lot. It has some good poetry in it and pieces written about poetry.
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Bob Grumman
3.0 out of 5 stars At Last, A Worthwhile Mainstream Poetry Anthology
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 1998
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This is the first poetry anthology published by a university or commercial press that covers just about the full range of poetry, as I know it. True, in many areas (e.g., pluraesthetic poetry, or poetry that mixes expressive modalities such as visual poetry) it's twenty or more years behind the times, but when you compare it to such duds as David Lehman's Wilbur-to-Ashbery "best American poetry" anthologies, which are forty years behind the times on all fronts, and the Norton thing on "post-modernist poetry," which is only within twenty years of the times in its inclusion of specimens of "sprung-grammar poetry" (my term for what most people refer to as "language poetry"), it's hard to fault it for that. Hence, I recommend it to all serious readers of poetry
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Perfect Museum Piece
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When the history of postmodernism is written, and let's hope that is sooner rather than later, if you know what I'm saying (and if you're a postmodernist I suppose you have to concede that you do not, nor does anybody), this book will make an excellent museum piece. When future generations leaf through "Poems for the Millennium" they will wonder, What - in God's name - were those people thinking! The book has no real answers, but plenty of examples. Answers are almost impossible, you see, because language is meaningless to the postmodern mind. Words don't mean anything, and it is with this basis that the poetry in this book was written. Now, this makes a poet's job rather easy. With no meaning there can be only one standard by which to write - namely, just how meaningless can I make it? Not that there are degrees of meaninglessness. But one must assume that surely a book like this exists because somebody has determined that some of this is meaningful. There is, in other words, meaning in meaninglessness.

Another safe assumption is that there is apparently some kind of strange credibility among the academic literati that attaches to people who become expert in the recognition and publishing of meaninglessness. Good work if you can get it. Great example of postmodernism! you declare about a "poem" that simply lists words in a random order. Print it! Once your reputation is made, who can argue? And so Rothenberg and Joris go down as foremost experts among the intelligentsia in how to recognize meaningful meaninglessness when one sees it. And so where the laymen sees randomness and nothing, our experts can tell us we are witnessing the experimental, the avant-garde. This is groundbreaking stuff, you see. We are pushing the envelope. Or, to put it into a postmodern verse: glass rectify bard and sugar hedgehog. (Whoa! I think I just blew my own mind.)

Now, to be fair, there is some manner of explanation within the pages of "Poems for the Millennium." There are manifestos by the poets themselves. Unfortunately, these make no more sense than the poems. (Of course they don't - it's postmodernism; haven't you been paying attention?)

It is with little doubt that the people represented in this book are sitting somewhere giggling at the fact that their pointless drivel has been not only taken seriously, but anthologized to boot. Like adolescent kids, which is fitting because when the history of postmodernism is written, I suspect the period will be likened to poetry's adolescence. This is the period we all broke away from our parents and tried different things. We wanted to rebel. Why? Because that's what kids do. They thumb their noses at convention. (What are you rebelling against, Johnny? What have you got?) It's all a part of the growth process, you know. One hopes a level of maturity will soon replace this moment in history. And we see it already, do we not? Literary journals seem to be swinging back towards publishing works that are actually ABOUT things. It's a nice trend. Hopefully, soon, we'll be able to look back and laugh at our gangly selves - acne, bad hair, and all - and say, Cripes, am I glad that's over!

"Poems for the Millennium." Enjoy it. It is close to 900 pages but do not let this overwhelm you. After all, you only need to pick out one or two pieces at random, and you'll pretty much have read the whole thing. Meaninglessness, you see, is good like that. It can be covered quickly and then you can move on. History, it is a certainty, will do just this with the postmodernists.
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Allan
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Contemporary Anthology
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2007
Rothenberg and Joris have assembled an absolutely stunning collection of modernist and postmodern poets in this fat volume. Not only has he included some well-known but seldom anthologized writers like Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, but he has included Fluxus artist/writers like Dick Higgins, Jackson Mac Low, Emmett Williams and many other important, but lesser-known poets. Nearly every poet that one would expect to find in a good anthology is to be found - and many people and writers that one might not expect to find in a poetry anthology are also found here. And once found, the choices seem obvious and not forced or contrived.

With so many great poems and poets to choose from, most readers will find at least one omission, (where's Leonard Cohen? Charles Bukowski? Sylvia Plath?) but with such a huge scope these are mostly forgivable. After all it is easy to find volumes of work by Bukowski and Cohen, but a volume like this anthology presents the opportunity to expose us to equally interesting and lesser known writers.

Most of the poems are followed by a brief quote from the poet and a short vignette about the poet written be Rothenberg or Joris. Anybody who is serious about the enjoyment of reading and writing new poetry will enjoy this book and will want to add it to their library.
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Sally Whittaker
2.0 out of 5 stars Ambitious undertaking
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2014
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This is an ambitious undertaking, to collect and publish representative postmodern poetry from around the world...exactly the kind of thing an academic would do. But the problem is that poetry from one language cannot be translated properly into another. Words differ, the rhythm of the words and lines differ, the music of the poetry cannot be maintained. So what you are left with is a large book of foreign language poems translated into English, although at least one poem is left in its original language because the editors admitted it could not be transferred adequately into English. So you might get the general idea of a poem but not the poetry itself. For most Americans the result will probably be unsatisfying if the goal is a poetry anthology. More accurately this is a book of poems translated into American English , an academic exercise at best, with little to offer those looking for the joy of poetry..
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Adam M
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2006
This book has become my bible. The selections is incredible, there are poems, manifestos, and commentary. The Olson, Duncan, Creeley, John Cage, and Nathanial Mackey selections are very impressive. After obtaining this book I realized how important it is that I have taken a class taught by Professor Joris. JerryRothenberg is, of course, also an amazing poet and this work shows this dedication to the field.

Great for beginners, students, and veterans alike.
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An excellent collection. It's extraordinary attempt, lovers of poetry get different experience when they go through poerty from every region. Also an opportunity to a have a bird eye view on how transformation occurred in the structure and substance of poetry. Recommendable for students of literature.
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