Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Influenced in part by Jerome Rothenberg's and Pierre Joris's groundbreaking 20th century poetry anthology in two volumes, Poems for the Millenium: A Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, publisher-editor Douglas Messerli began in 1995 to edit his own international anthology. Each volume contains brief biographies and complete listings of each author's books of poetry. This second volume contains the work of Anna Akhmatova, Oswald de Andrade, Ece Ayhan, Gottfried Benn, Lucian Blaga, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Blaise Cendrars, Forugh Farrokhzad, Pedro Garcia Cabrera, Barbara Guest, Nikolai Gumilev, Peter Huchel, Vicente Huidobro, Maruyama Kaoru, Pablo Neruda, Cees Nooteboom, and others. Volume one is also available from SPD.
Synopsis
This book, the second volume in the ongoing compilation of 20th century world poetry, contains poetry and biographical material on 22 new poets: Anna Akhmatova (Russia), Oswald de Andrade (Brazil), Ece Ayhan (Turkey), Gottfried Benn (Germany), Lucian Blaga (Romania), Blaise Cendrars (Switzerland), Barbara Guest (USA), Nikolai Gumilev (Russia), Vicente Huidobro (Chile), D. H. Lawrence (England), Pablo Neruda (Chile), Saint-John Perse (Guadelope/France), Edith Sodergran (Finland), Alfonsina Storni (Argentina), and others.
Publisher of Green Integer and Sun and Moon Press, Douglas Messerli has edited numerous anthologies and published several books of poetry, fiction, and drama of his own.
Synopsis
This book, the second volume in the ongoing compilation of 20th century world poetry, contains poetry and biographical material on 22 new poets: Anna Akhmatova (Russia), Oswald de Andrade (Brazil), Ece Ayhan (Turkey), Gottfried Benn (Germany), Lucian Blaga (Romania), Blaise Cendrars (Switzerland), Barbara Guest (USA), Nikolai Gumilev (Russia), Vicente Huidobro (Chile), D. H. Lawrence (England), Pablo Neruda (Chile), Saint-John Perse (Guadelope/France), Edith Sodergran (Finland), Alfonsina Storni (Argentina), and others.
Publisher of Green Integer and Sun & Moon Press, Douglas Messerli has edited numerous anthologies and published several books of poetry, fiction, and drama of his own.
Also available
The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century, Volume 2
PB $15.95, 1-892295-47-4 CUSA
Synopsis
The second volume in the ongoing Green Integer series of 20th century poetry.
About the Author
Publisher of Green Integer and (formerly) Sun and Moon Press, Messerli has published several books of poetry and fiction, as well as editing the ongoing PIP series of World of Poetry of the 20th Century and numerous other titles.