Revolution of the Word: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry, 1914-1945 . - Softcover

Jerome Rothenberg (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816493022 ISBN 13: 9780816493029

Publisher: The Seabury Press, 1974

Synopsis

"The accomplishment of American avant garde poetry over the last two decades is now a recognized fact. Much less frequently acknowledged is that its emergence in the 1950s was really part of an unbroken continuum, its roots in the 19th century, its first major period just before and during World War I, and many of its most astonishing manifestation in the 1920s and 1930s.
"In Revolution of the Word, poet Jerome Rothenberg has included poets, many of whom have been long ignored or omitted from the standard, middle-ground anthologies — early figures like Stein and Duchamp, germinal to their own time and again at present; nearly forgotten poets like Mina Loy and Harry Crosby; movements like New York Dada, futurism, cubism, surrealism, objectivism; and poets like Zukovsky, Rexroth, Patchen, and Oppen, whose centrality, long recognized by younger poets, has only begun to surface in the literary histories. Similarly, the work of a number of the more-accepted modern poets is presented in ways that will make clear its relevance to later avant gardes: Pound's "vorticism" and canto structure, Williams' "improvisations", Marianne Moore's collages, Cummings' anticipations of concrete poetry, and the extreme "acts of the mind" in poets like H.D. and Wallace Stevens."

Edition details

• Publisher: The Seabury Press
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816493022
• ISBN 13: 9780816493029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260