Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude
10 best books like Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude (Jerome Rothenberg): Zong!, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy, Sleeping With the Dictionary, I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, Deepstep Come Shining, Women Poets of China, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk: A Poem in Fragments, Collected Poems of George Oppen
| Author | M. NourbeSe Philip |
| ISBN | 0819568767 |
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert--the only extant public document related to the massacre of these...
| Author | Mina Loy |
| ISBN | 0374525072 |
Mina Loy has been perplexingly absent from British literary history. In America she has been posthumously launched as the electric-age Blake, she has been translated into French and Italian to great acclaim, and in the Times Literary Supplement Thom Gunn compared her to the great Augustan satirists....
| Author | Harryette Mullen |
| ISBN | 0520231430 |
Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions,...
I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women
| Author | Caroline Bergvall |
| ISBN | 1934254332 |
Conceptual writing is emerging as a vital 21st century literary movement and I’ll Drown My Book represents the contributions of women in this defining moment. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, I’ll Drown My Book takes its name from a poem by Bernadette...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0393309762 |
I read this for my Poetry & Protest class and I just wanted to catalogue the poems that I read on Goodreads. I'd love to read this whole collection someday and hopefully I will, but for now, here are the poems that I have read:
"A Working Party" by Siegfried Sassoon
Really intense poem that...
In C.D. Wright’s book-length poem Deepstep Come Shining, the eye and the ear are center. In the book, the result of a road trip taken with photographer Deborah Luster through Georgia and the Carolinas, the speaker of the poem is the “hand of the selenographer, mapper of lost roads.” Wright’s...
| Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
| ISBN | 0811208214 |
This book (originally published in 1972 by The Seabury Press as The Orchid Boat) is the first representative collection of the poetry of Chinese women to appear in English. Unlike Japan with its long tradition of women writers, poetry by women did not become fashionable in China until the Ch'ing dynasty...
| Author | Tina Chang |
| ISBN | 0393332381 |
A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.
Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection...
| Author | Joshua Marie Wilkinson |
| ISBN | 0877459819 |
Drawing from the paintings of Susan Rothenberg, Gwyneth Scally, and Eric Fischl as well as from the photography of Allison Maletz, Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk is a book-length poem written in small fragments. Comprised of seven sections, the poem...
| Author | George Oppen |
| ISBN | 0811206157 |
First published in 1975, and available now as a New Directions Paperbook, George Oppen's Collected Poems brings together the work of one of our foremost contemporary poets, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize. A member of the Objectivist school that flourished in the 1930s (which also included William...
| Author | Louis Zukofsky |
| ISBN | 0801856566 |
The American poet Louis Zukofsky received little public attention during his lifetime, though he was regarded by his literary contemporaries as one of the finest writers in the United States. Now in paperback, "Complete Short Poetry" gathers all of Zukofsky's poetry outside his 800-page magnum...
| Author | Ted Berrigan |
| ISBN | 0140589279 |
Originally published in 1964, The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most important and influential book. This new annotated edition, with an introduction by Alice Notley, includes seven previously uncollected works. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, Berrigan's poems involve friendship...
| Author | Nathaniel Mackey |
| ISBN | 0811216527 |
Part antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey's new collection of poems, Splay Anthem, takes the reader to uncharted poetic spaces. Divided into three sections—"Braid," "Fray," and "Nub" (one referent Mackey notes in his stellar Introduction: "the imperial, flailing republic...
| Author | Donald M. Allen |
| ISBN | 0520209532 |
With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American...
| Author | Cole Swensen |
| ISBN | 0393333752 |
As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration....
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 0061583243 |
When your thoughts
don’t take you too far
and you are silent
as you tremble
and gaze
at the trellis of your hands.
When the chariot of your imagination
does not lead you into tunnels
lit up with apprehensions
and lightnings
as you remain silent
and...
| Author | Bernadette Mayer |
| ISBN | 0811212033 |
“What a clear, insistent health there is here––as if the so-called world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I've read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world of real people in real times and places, a fact...
| Author | Paul Hoover |
| ISBN | 0393310906 |
Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets. Included, too, is the rich array of poetry written...
| Author | Jack Spicer |
| ISBN | 0819568872 |
In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and '60s, though in many ways Spicer's innovative...
| Author | Paul Auster |
| ISBN | 0394717481 |
During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world's greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer.
"Indispensable...
| Author | Juliana Spahr |
| ISBN | 0819565253 |
Juliana Spahr uses details to explore Hawai'i's politics of location and her own place in it as an outsider: a hard-core show where the singer shouts out "fuck you-aloha-I love you" over and over; the pidgin word 'da kine;' native Hawaiian rights to gathering; Palolo stream; the similarities and differences...
| Author | Robert Creeley |
| ISBN | 0520069366 |
Impulses stir
To write a review
Using
The clipped,
Broken
What use is such unfinished verse, what does matter with coffee breath, a taillight out and a strange dream about a girl once dated?
Bobbie--take me away, perhaps to Indiana. Jon just read these poems, purchased...
