Review Quotes Barbaric Vast and Wild is the crowning jewel of the Poems for the Millennium series.the mad eclecticism of this anthology is its greatest virtue - it moves in leaps and bounds, like Nijinsky on peyote. It also extends the time frame of the preceding volumes in Poems for the Millennium, hoping to show that, in all places and times, what the dominant culture has taken as poetry has only been part of the story. In this new and equally groundbreaking volume, Rothenberg and John Bloomberg-Rissman have assembled a wide-ranging gathering of poems and related language works, whose outside/outsider and subterranean/subversive positions challenge some of the boundaries to where poetry has been or may be practiced, as well as the form and substance of the poetry itself.
If there's still any sense in talking of an avant-garde, then that must be it for me: an insistence that the work deny itself the last word, because the consequences of closure & the closed mind have been and continue to be horrendous in the world we know.Book Synopsis Barbaric Vast & Wild is a continuation and a possible culmination of the project that began with Jerome Rothenbergs Technicians of the Sacred in 1968 and led to the first four volumes of Poems for the Millennium in the 1990s and 2000s. "I see all my work in this regard," he comments, "as a pre-face to something that comes after.
Called an "oral" poet by some, a "post-modernist" by others, Rothenberg's own views-both the theories and their applications-have never before been gathered the present book is intended to show the continuities in his own evolving poetics. Almost singlehandedly, he founded the interdisciplinary field of "ethnopoetics"-both as the investigation of poetry across the full range of human cultures and its practice in relation to our own. In addition to more than twenty volumes of his own poetry Jerome Rothenberg has been active in a wide area of contemporary experimentation: poetry performance, both as "reading" and as "happening" the assembling of radical anthologies and magazines (such as Technicians of the Sacred and Alcheringa) aimed at the creation of a fresh environment of poetries "freed from the bondage of a monolithic great tradition" and the exploration of new techniques of translation especially appropriate to tribal/oral poetry. Pre-Faces & Other Writings is the first collection of poetics by one of the most revolutionary literary innovators of our time.
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