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Poems for the MillenniumPoems for the Millennium IReading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, September 28, 1998 Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg read selections from Poems for the Millennium, a two-volume anthology published by the University of California Press, which they coedited. The editors, and guest readers Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Bob Perelman, performed excerpts from a number of poems in the anthology (tracks 2 to 22) followed by readings of recent works of the editors' own (tracks 23 to 34).
Poems for the Millennium IIIReading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, March 29, 2009A launch and reading for Poems for the Millennium III, The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson. Like its two twentieth-century predecessors, Poems for the Millennium I & II, this gathering sets forth a globally decentered approach to the poetry of the preceding century from an experimental and visionary perspective. Joining Rothenberg and Robinson in the reading and performance are Charles Bernstein, Bob Holman, Pierre Joris, Cecilia Vicuña, and Anne Waldman. Unfortunately, there were technical difficulties during the recording of this event, and therefore some of the following selections begin partly into the individual's reading or are prematurely curtailed.
Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2009The previous two volumes of this acclaimed anthology set forth a globally decentered revision of twentieth-century poetry from the perspective of its many avant-gardes. Now editors Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson bring a radically new interpretation to the poetry of the preceding century, viewing the work of the romantic and post-romantic poets as an international, collective, often utopian enterprise that became the foundation of experimental modernism. Global in its range, volume three gathers selections from the poetry and manifestos of canonical poets, as well as the work of lesser-known but equally radical poets. Defining romanticism as experimental and visionary, Rothenberg and Robinson feature prose poetry, verbal-visual experiments, and sound poetry, along with more familiar forms seen here as if for the first time. The anthology also explores romanticism outside the European orbit and includes ethnopoetic and archaeological works outside the literary mainstream. The range of volume three and its skewing of the traditional canon illuminate the process by which romantics and post- romantics challenged nineteenth-century orthodoxies and propelled poetry to the experiments of a later modernism and avant-gardism. Complete Discussion (1:22:09): MP3 / MOV Complete Reading (1:46:24): MP3 / MOV segmented reading:
N.B. cut 4 [(12:12): MP3] is a montage -- For Emma: After Edward Lear’s “The Old Man of Whitehaven”; CB tr. of an 1847 poem from Hugo’s Les Contemplations; From Swinburne, “The Ballad of Burdens”; CB tr of Heine’s "Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht" followed by poem after "Der Tod" from Shadowtime; “The Introvert,” after Wordworth’s "The Hermet"; excerpt from Whitman’s “RESPONDEZ!”; CB tr. of Baudelaire’s “Enivrez-vous”: “Be Drunken”; Blake’s “The Sick Rose” from Song of Experience Also of interest:These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial
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