POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM

The University Of California Book Of Modern & Postmodern Poetry Volume Two From Postwar to Millennium.

 

edited by Pierre Joris & Jerome Rothenberg.

 

Berkeley & Los Angeles (USA), University Of California Press, [december] 1998. issued in 2 variants:

a) ISBN o-52o-2o863-3, "cloth" unexamined;

b) ISBN o-52o-2o864-1, as depicted/described.

 

5-15/16 x 8-15/16, 228 sheets white bond folded to 912 pp in 29 signatures (28 of 8 sheets, 28th of 4), sewn pearl white in 11 doublestitches & glued in matte PVC white card wrappers, all except inside covers & 18 pp printed black offset with 3-colour process addition to outside covers.

 

cover text by Tom Phillips.

321 contributors ID'd:

Chinua Achebe, "Adonis", Anna Akhmatova, Anne-Marie Albiach, Pierre Alechinsky, Will Alexander, Unsi Al-Hajj, Yusuf Al-Khal, Muhammad Al-Maghut, Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab, Carbs Altschul, Monique Altschul, Yehuda Amichai, Bruce Andrews, David Antin, Karel Appel, Rae Armantrout, Richard Arno, Antonin Artaud, H.C.Artmann, John Ashbery, Ikuko Atsumi, Kofi Awoonor, Ece Ayhan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elena Balashova, Nanni Balestrini, Stephen Bann, Wu Baohe, Amiri Baraka, Tony Barnstone, Konrad Bayer, Julian Beck, Samuel Bekett, Molly Bendall, Charles Bernstein, Ted Berrigan, Sujato Bhatt, Walter Billeter, Beth Bjorklund, Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser, Chana Bloch, Magda Bogin, Sargon Boulus, Coral Bracho, Kamau Brathwaite, George Brecht, André Breton, Nicole Brossard, Nola Burger, William S.Burroughs, John Cage, Eduardo Calderón, Ernesto Cardenal, Rosario Castellanos, Mary Ann Caws, John Cayley, Paul Celan, Aimé Césaire, Theresa Hak Chung Cha, Samuel Charters, Gu Cheng, Henri Chopin, Malay Roy Choudhury, Inger Christensen, Hugo Claus, Bob Cobbing, Richard Collins, Clark Coolidge, Gregory Corso, Jatne Cortez, Ron Costley, Robert Creeley, Mary Crow, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Fang Dai, Bei Dao, Mahmoud Darwish, Joan Dayan, Guy Debord, Augusto De Campos, Haroldo De Campos, Eloina Estrada De Gonzalez, Michel Deguy, René Depestre, Mohammed Dib, Dennis Ding, Diane Di Prima, Hilda Doolittle, Edward Dorn, Christian Dotremont, Arkadii Dragomoschenko, Christopher Drake, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Duncan, Duo Duo, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Larry Eigner, Gunnar Ekelöf, Komi Ekpe, Ray Ellenwood, William I.Elliott, Elke Erb, Clayton Eshleman, Alvaro Estrada, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Filiou, Michael Fineberg, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Allen Fisher, Thomas Fitzimmons, Kimon Friar, Robin Fulton, Frantisek Galan, Forrest Gander, Ilse Garnier, Pierre Garnier, Claude Gauvreau, Albraham Lincoln Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Glass, Edouard Glissant, Barbara Godard, Eugen Gomringer, Yoshimasu Gozo, Cleve Gray, Malcolm Green, Malcolm Gross, Philip Guston, Pierre Guyotat, Paavo Haavikko, Sam Hamill, Carla Harryman, Samuel Hazo, Bernard Heidsieck, Michael Heim, Helmut Heissenbuttel, Lyn Hejinian, Theo Hermans, Allen Hibbard, Dick Higgins, John High, Ito Hiromi, Thomas Hoeksema, Vladimir Holan, Anselm Hollo, Susan Howe, Eva Hung, Kenneth Irby, Osama Isber, Nina Iskrenko, Roderick Iverson, Edmond Jabès, Ernst Jandl, Hédi Jaouad, May Jayyusi, Robert Johnson, Pierre Joris, Asger Jorn, Nicholas Jose, James Joyce, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Bob Kaufman, Kazuo Kawamura, Shiraishi Kazuko, Mang Ke, Robert Kelly, Imogene Elizabeth Kennedy, Hugh Kenner, Jack Kerouac, Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, Sarah Kirsch, Ken Knabb, Mala Kotamraju, Gerrit Kouwengaar, Wayne Kvam, Mabel Lee, Rika Lesser, Carol Lettieri, David Le Vay, Denise Levertov, Yang Lian, John Lifton, Newton Liu, Hugh McDiarmid, George Maciunas, Nathaniel Mackey, Jackson Mac Low, Chen Maiping, Ooka Makoto, Joyce Mansour, Lenore Mayhew, Friederike Mayröcker, Steve McCaffery, Anthony McCall, Michael McClure, Bonnie S.McDougall, Charles McGeehan, Richard McKane, William McNaughton, David Meltzer, Henri Michaux, Richard H.Minear, Yoshioka Minoru, Stephen Mitchell, Edwin Morgan, Edward Morin, Leith Morton, Lisel Mueller, Ibrahim Muhawi, Henry Munn, Takahashi Mutsuo, Kostas Myrsiades, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Pablo Neruda, Giulia Niccolai, bpNichol, Peter Nijmeijer, Seiichi Nikuni, Alice Notley, Naomi Shihab Nye, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, George Oppen, Simon Ortiz, Maggie O'Sullivan, Rochelle Owens, Michae Palmer, Nicanor Parra, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Octavio Paz, Bob Perelman, Marjorie Perloff, Andrew Peynetsa, Tom Phillips, Alejandra Pizarnik, Vasko Popa, Antonio Porta, Ezra Pound, J.H.Prynne, Julian Pulley, Tom Raworth, Lucia Re, Ishmael Reed, Kenneth Rexroth, Adrienne Rich, Yannis Ritsos, Denis Roche, Janet Rodney, Jim Rosenberg, John Rosenwald, Amelia Rosselli, Diane Rothenberg, Jerome Rothenberg, Jacques Roubaud, Gerhard Rühm, Muriel Rukeyser, Tamura Ryuichi, María Sabina, Eric Sackheim, Fujii Sadakazu, Edward Sanders, Edoardo Sanguineti, Toge Sankichi, Hiroaki Sato, Leslie Scalapino, Bert Schierbeek, Carolee Schneeman, Armand Schwerner, Michael Sears, Eric Selland, Anne Sexton, F.Kaye Sharon, Tanikawa Shuntaro, Ron Silliman, Joseph Simas, Charles Simic, Leif Sjöberg, Annette Smith, Lawrence R.Smith, Gary Snyder, Göran Sonnevi, Adriano Spatola, Charles Stein, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, John Taggart, Ines Talamantez, Tchicaya U Tam'si, Nathaniel Tarn, Dennis Tedlock, Habib Tengour, Shu Ting, Tomas Tranströmer, Quincy Troupe, Amos Tutuola, Paul Vangelisti, Pasquale Verdicchio, Cecilia Vicuña, Andrei Voznesensky, Tom Waits, Diane Wakoski, Annde Waldman, Rosemarie Waldrop, Barrett Watten, Harriett Watts, Eliot Weinberger, Hnnah Weiner, Jason Weiss, Kenneth White, Oswald Wiener, Emmett Williams, Miller Williams, William Carlos Williams, Monique Wittig, Harold Wright, Karl Young, Pamela Zoline, Louis Zukofsky, Nicholas Zürbrugg.

 

Nichol contributes:

i) Scraptures: 17th Sequence (poem, 4o lines, pp.728>729)

ii) "chaos rumoured" [ie Monotones LXII] (poem, 17 lines, p.73o)

iii) The Hill Songs of Saint Orm (poem, pp.73o>731; in 5 #d parts:

–1) "all day i have wandered in these southern reaches" (5 lines, p.73o)

–2) "berries for food" (7 lines, pp.73o>731)

–3) "the people you thot you knew lie" (3 lines, p.731)

–4) "this morning a bird woke me" (2 lines, p.731)

–5) "when you have nothing" (6 lines, p.731))

iv) "the waste of my words & works. the worth." (poem,14 lines, pp.731>732)

 

also includes:

v) COMMENTARY, by Pierre Joris & Jerome Rothenberg (prose on Robert Filliou, p.288; passing reference to Nichol & Six Fillious)

vi) CONCRETE POETRY, by Pierre Joris & Jerome Rotheberg (prose, pp.3o2>3o3; passing reference to Nichol p.3o3)

vii) "I DREAMED I SAW HUGO BALL", by Karl Young; photographed by Michael Sears (book object, p.318; quotes by Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol (from BEAST part 1, "i dreamed i saw hugo ball", line 1))

viii) "Performance book for the FOUR HORSEMEN. Each page is in effect a box", by Karl Young (prose on (vii) above, p.318)

ix) COMMENTARY, by Pierre Joris & Jerome Rothenberg (prose on Nichol, p.732; quotes: Frank Davey, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol, from (in order):

–1) bpNichol, STATEMENT (as epigraph)

–2) bpNichol, [quotes in Rosalie Murphy anthology]

–3) bpNichol, Interview Feb. 13 1978, interviewed by Ken Norris

–4) bpNichol, Not What The Siren Sang But What The Frag Ment, interviewed by Carolyn Bayard & Nicholas Power

–5) Frank Davey, bpNichol (including quotes by bpNichol from:

––A) "how could you?" (part of line 8)

––B) "lift up your eyes my lady" (part of line 28)

––C) "the sky is as this word is" (line 5))

–6) Steve McCaffery, Introduction (to Rational Geomancy)

 

 

 

Done