Jerome Rothenberg has raised the anthology to an art form. His most recent publication, Poems for the Millennium (University of California Press, 1995) reevaluates modernism from a global perspective. Shaking the Pumpkin (1972) and America a Prophecy (1973) diversified the canon long before "multi-culturalism." And his 1974 Revolution of the Word remains an unparalleled collection of American avant-garde writing from between the wars. Nearly twenty-five years after its first publication, this long out-of-print collection is still xeroxed for college courses because it contains works that are otherwise unavailable (by Else von Freytag-Loringhoven, Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, et al.), and because it places some of the most popular writers of the century - e.e cummings, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein - in their original context: the anarchistic experimentation of early modernism.
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A Fabulous Anthology,
By Mikel Parent (Waltham, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Revolution Of The Word: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914-1945 (Paperback)
I first ran across this anthology by accident in Evans Library on the Texas A&M University campus. Since then I have been reading the poets included in "Revolution". Rothenberg's anthology is a must read for anyone interested in avant garde poetry from 1914-1945 and beyond. Rothenberg's introduction to "Revolution" not only provides a lucid introduction to the anthology, but also provides a good place from which to begin to approach the rich poetry of the avant garde that he collects in his later 2 volume "Poems for the Millenium". I haven't found a better introduction to the avant garde tradition than "Revolution". I'm excited that I'll finally be able to add it to my personal library.
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