{"id":13103,"date":"2015-04-02T07:57:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=13103"},"modified":"2015-04-01T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T13:57:46","slug":"poems-for-the-millennium-volume-5-barbaric-vast-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/poems-for-the-millennium-volume-5-barbaric-vast-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems for the Millennium, volume 5: Barbaric Vast & Wild…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM, VOLUME 5<\/strong>: Barbaric Vast & Wild: An Assemblage of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present
\n<\/em>Edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg and John Bloomberg-Rissman<\/p>\n

Barbaric Vast & Wild<\/em> is a continuation and a possible culmination of the project that began with Jerome Rothenberg\u2019s Technicians of the Sacred<\/em> in 1968 and led to the first four volumes of Poems for the Millennium<\/em> in the 1990s and 2000s. 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. It also extends the time frame of the preceding volumes in Poems for the Millennium<\/em>, hoping to show that, in all places and times, what the dominant culture has taken as poetry has only been part of the story.<\/p>\n

Divided into four \u201cbooks\u201d \u2013 Visions, Voices, Extensions, and Performances \u2013 Barbaric Vast & Wild<\/em>brings together on a global and historical scale \u2013 from the paleolithic caves to the immediate present \u2013 works from the hieratic and sacred to the mundane and the radically transgressive and politically subversive. The range here is enormous: Egyptian pyramid texts, biblical prophecies, pre-Socratic poet-philosophers, Buddhist wanderers and \u201cdivine madmen,\u201d along with poems and related language works from dialects and \u201cnation languages,\u201d thieves\u2019 cants and other argots or vernaculars, working class and lumpen poetries, popular and newspaper poetry, sermons and rants, glossolalia and glossographia, slogans, graffiti, private writings (journals and diaries) or semi-private (correspondence, blogs, or social-networkings), and the \u201cart of the insane\u201d (Art Brut<\/em>) that marked the early turning of avant-garde artists and poets to the idea of an \u201coutside\u201d poetry and art.\u00a0 The work as a whole may be taken as another step toward what the editors have called an \u201comnipoetics\u201d and an \u201canthology of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Writes Charles Bernstein of this latest addition to Poems for the Millennium<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cBararic Vast and Wild<\/em> is the crowning jewel of the Poems for the Millennium<\/em> series, just that it proposes a deep othering of the entire project, a movement beyond the radically reconceived visionary canon of poetic invention to an uncharted realm beyond any literary canon formation, from Blake\u2019s chartered streets to something that proposes a reimaging of the literary in its re-grounding in the uncharted. \u2026 The fact is that the mad eclecticism of this anthology is its greatest virtue \u2013 it moves in leaps and bounds, like Nijinsky on peyote. It defies any category previously existing and yet as a reader I feel I get it, get it again, and get it over and again, as I am pulled in different directions. In a way, this book works, even more than Rothenberg\u2019s other anthologies, as an epic poem \u2013 along the lines of a work, as Walter Benjamin imagined, composed just of quotations. The constellation \u2013 or set of constellations \u2013 is stunning and unexpected \u2013 the connections are themselves visionary or outside rational historical plotting. What this does is to make a book magically readable \u2013 not a text book, not a succession of cultural touchstones you \u2018ought\u2019 to know, but an autonomous reading experience that changes everything page by page.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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