Martin wrote:
>
> With regard to good anthologies, a reply to Robert's question, have
> you considered Poems for the Millenium edited by Jerome Rothenberg and
> Pierre Joris? It is really a work of anthology--which would certainly
> need to be considered when using an anthology I suspect, the
> connections and groupings are themselves points for discussion.
Glad you mentioned MILLENNIUM, would have done so myself, though that
would have sounded like a sales pitch... modesty forbids, @cetera... I
have been using it in a number of courses, both undergraduate &
graduate, & have found it useful at both levels, even though the
undergraduates are rather baffled. I.e. it does need an instructor who
has done her homework, because the students will come up with baffling
questions -- they've caught me, co-author, out a couple times. Which
isn't a bad thing, obviously.
>I'm
> uncertain how easy it is to get hold of in Britain (University of
> California Press),
Should be easy, UCP has its setup & distribution in the UK & ordering it
for a course shld be straightforward.
>and of course it might carry fewer of the poets
> this list serve serves, but it a good one.
Well, next spring Volume 2 is coming out, has some of the people on this
very list in it -- as it is an international "global" anthology, every
"national" category will of course think itself slighted, but that's the
limts of anthology as well as the kicker.
Good books about writing poetry are rare. The Zuk Fiona mentioned, of
course. Also Pound's essays. I stay away from any "how to" books. Have
used the Bernstein edited "Politics of Poetic Form," Charles' own "A
Poetics," the Waldman/Schelling "Disembodies Poetics." This semester I
am using the new edition of Muriel Rukeyser's "The Life of Poetry." In
the past I have often used Clayton Eshleman's "Novices" -- students will
hate it or love it, the reaction is always strong -- but it has been out
of print for a few years now, though a new edition should be out this
spring.
Pierre
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Everything that allows men to become rooted, through
values or sentiments, in _one_ time, in _one_ history, in
_one_ language, is the principle of alienation which
constitutes man as privileged in so far as he is what he is,
[...] imprisoning him in contentment with his own reality
and encouraging him to offer it as an example or impose
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