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Poems for the Millennium, Volume Two: From Postwar to Millennium (1998)






Berkeley, California: The University of California Press (book, anthology), 1998.
9.25" x 6.5" x 2.25", 871 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 0-520-20863-3.

Poems for the Millennium, Volume Two: From Postwar to Millennium, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, as published by the University of California Press (Berkeley, California) in 1998.

William S. Burroughs is included in this collection with his work "Fear and the Monkey", at pages 364-365 within the "A First Gallery" section of the book, under "Some 'Beat' Poets."

This copy was acquired from Bell's Books (San Jose, California).

Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5).

Contents: 

  • Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris: introduction
  • "Thanks and Acknowledgements"
  • "Prelude: In the Dark":
    • Charles Olsen: "La Préface"
    • Paul Celan: "A Death Figure"
    • Anna Akhmatova: "from Poem without a Hero: Epilogue"
    • Toge Sankichi: "from Poems of the Atomic Bomb: Dying"
    • René Depestre: "Season of Anger"
    • Ingeborg Bachmann: "The Time Allotted"
    • Antonin Artaud: "from To Have Done with the Judgment of God"
    • Gertrude Stein: "from The Mother of Us All: Concluding Aria"
    • Wallace Stevens: "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"
    • James Joyce: "from Finnegans Wake"
    • William Carlos Williams: "from Paterson, Book Three"
    • Ezra Pound: "Canto 116"
    • H. D.: "from Hermetic Definition: Red Rose and a Beggar (1-9)
    • Hugh MacDiarmid: "The Glass of Pure Water"
    • André Breton: "from Ode to Charles Fourier"
    • Henri Michaux: "from Saisir"
    • Louis Zukofsky: "from 'A' 12"
    • Pablo Neruda: "from The Heights of Macchi Picchu"
    • Gunnar Ekelöf: "from Mölna Elegy"
    • Muriel Rukeyser: "The Speed of Darkness"
    • Aimé Césaire: "from I, Laminaria"
  • "A First Gallery":
    • Marie Luise Kaschnitz:
      • "My Ground"
      • "Who Would Have Thought It"
    • Vladimir Holan: "from A Night with Hamlet"
    • Samuel Beckett: "Imagination Dead Imagine"
    • George Oppen:
      • "Psalm"
      • "Myth of the Blaze"
    • Yannis Ritsos: 
      • "The Meaning of Simplicity"
      • "Naked Face"
      • "Erotica XII"
      • "from 3 x 111 Tristychs"
    • Charles Olson: 
      • "'my memory is ...'"
      • "'Peloria ...'"
      • "The Moon Is the Number 18"
      • "Maximum, from Dogtown-II"
      • "'Added to ...'"
    • Edmond Jabès:
      • "from The Book of Questions:
        • "'The Jew answers every question with another question'"
        • "The Book of the Living"
        • "'Have you seen how a word is born and dies?'"
    • John Cage:
      • "[Epigraph] 'If there were a part of life dark enough ...'"
      • "from Song Books: Solo for Voice 17: Song with Electronics"
      • "Two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham"
      • "from Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) 1965"
    • "The Vienna Group":
      • H.C. Artmann: 
        • "[Untitled]"
        • "'an optician has a glass heart'"
      • Friederike Mayröcker: "Ostia Will Receive You"
      • Ernst Jandl:
        • "Chanson"
        • "Calypso"
        • "Preliminary Studies for the Frankfurt Readings 1984"
      • Gerhard Rühm:
        • "Flower Piece"
        • "A Few Things"
      • Konrad Bayer:
        • "from The Philosopher's Stone"
        • "The White and Black Bones"
    • Nicandor Parra:"The Individual's Soliloquy"
    • Octavio Paz: "from Blanco"
    • Bert Schierbeek:
      • "The Sun: Day"
      • "The Animal Has Drawn a Human"
    • Robert Duncan:
      • "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow"
      • "At the Loom, Passages 2"
      • "In Blood's Domaine"
    • Yoshioka Minoru: "Pilgrimage"
    • Paul Celan: "Breathcrystal"
    • Mohammed Dib: "from Formulaires"
    • Amos Tutuola: "from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: Television-handed Ghostess"
    • Helmut Heissenbüttel:
      • "Didactic Poem on the Nature of History, A.D. 1954"
      • "Conbination II"
      • "from Textbook 10"
    • Jackson Mac Low:
      • "Asymmetry 205"
      • "from The Pronouns – A Collection of 40 Dances – for the Dancers"
      • "3rd Light Year Poem: for Spencer, Beate, & Sebastian Holst – 12 June 1962"
      • "Pieces o' Six – II"
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini: "from A Desperate Valley"
    • Vasko Popa: "Burning Shewolf"
    • "The Tammuzi Poets":
      • Yusuf al-Khal: 
        • "Cain the Immortal"
        • "The Wayfarers"
      • Badr Shakir al-Sayyab: "The River and Death"
      • Adonis: "from A Desire Moving through the Maps of the Material"
      • Muhammad al-Maghut: "Executioner of Flowers"
      • Unsi al-Hajj: "The Charlatan"
    • Denise Levertov:
      • "The Jacob's Ladder"
      • "Age of Terror"
    • Yehuda Amichai:
      • "National Thoughts"
      • "Elegy"
      • "Near the Wall of a House"
    • Friederike Mayröcker: "'the spirit of '76'"
    • Emmett Williams:
      • "from The Red Chair (for three voices)"
      • "from The Ultimate Poem"
    • Robin Blaser: "Image-Nation 22 (in memoriam"
    • Ernesto Cardenal: "In xóchitl in cuicatl"
    • Rosario Castellanos: 
      • "Two Meditations"
      • "Two Poems"
    • Claude Gauvreau:
      • "Trustful Fatigue and Reality"
      • "The Leg of Mutton Créateur"
    • "COBRA":
      • Asger Jorn, with Christian Dotremont: "from Word-Pictures"
      • Christian Dotremont:
        • "Logogramme"
        • "Some Lapland Views"
      • Karel Appel: "Mad Talk"
      • Gerrit Kouwenaar:
        • "Elba"
        • "4 Variations On"
      • Lucebert:
        • "Rousseau le Douanier"
        • "9000 Jackals Swimming to Boston"
      • Pierre Alechinsky: "Ad Miró"
      • Hugo Claus: "The Tollund Man"
    • Ian Hamilton Finlay:
      • "from Heroic Emblems (with Ron Costley & Stephen Bann)"
      • "from Images from the Arcadian Dream Garden"
      • "The Garden Temple"
    • Ingeborg Bachmann: "Curriculum Vitae"
    • Paul Blackburn:
      • "Phone Call to Rutherford"
      • "At the Well"
      • "The Net of Place"
    • Robert Creeley:
      • "The Whip"
      • "Anger"
    • René Depestre: 
      • "from A Rainbow for the Christian West: Three Loas":
        • "Cap'tain Zombi"
        • "Baron-Samedi"
        • "Chango"
    • Allen Ginsberg:
      • "[Epigraph] 'I saw the best minds ...'"
      • "Mescaline"
      • "Kral Majales"
    • Robert Filliou, per George Brecht: "from 14 Songs and 1 Riddle"
    • Frank O'Hara:
      • "The Day Lady Died"
      • "Homosexuality"
      • "Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets"
    • John Ashbery: "from Flow Chart"
    • Larry Eigner:
      • "'explanation/tangent things'"
      • "Winter (January/February 1978)"
      • "'ah, so, yes'"
      • "[Three Poems 1989]"
    • "Concrete Poetry":
      • Eugen Gomringer:
        • "Two Poems":
          • "mist/mountain/butterfly"
          • "hang and swinging hang and swinging"
      • Ian Hamilton Finlay: "Poster Poem"
      • Emmett Williams: "Like Attracts Like"
      • Seiichi Nikuni: "Rain"
      • Ilse Garnier & Pierre Garnier: "Extension 2: Soleil"
      • Seiichi Nikuni & Pierre Garnier: "from Poèmes franco-japonais"
      • Haroldo de Campos: "from Transient Servitude"
      • Augusto de Campos: "Eye for Eye"
      • Karl Young: "Bookforms"
    • Armand Schwerner: "from The Tablets"
    • Anne Sexton: "from The Jesus Papers"
    • Bernard Heidsieck: "from Derviche / Le Robert: The Letter 'K'"
    • Joyce Mansour: 
      • "In the Gloom on the Left"
      • "Going and Coming of Sequins"
    • Nathaniel Tarn: "from Lyrics for the Bride of God"
    • Hannah Weiner:
      • "Two Code Poems from the International Code of Signals"
      • "from Clairvoyant Journal"
      • "Sand"
    • Edward Dorn:"from Gunslinger I"
    • Adrienne Rich: 
      • "The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message"
      • "The Phenomenology of Anger"
    • Chinua Achebe:
      • "Bull and Egret"
      • "We Laughed at Him"
    • "Some 'Beat' Poets":
      • William S. Burroughs: "Fear and the Monkey"
      • Jack Kerouac: "from Mexico City Blues: 211th Chorus"
      • Bob Kaufman:
        • "I AM A CAMERA"
        • "'All those ships that never sailed'"
        • "January 30, 1976: Message to Myself"
      • Allen Ginsberg: "America"
      • Gregory Corso: 
        • "The Mad Yak"
        • "Transformation & Escape"
      • Michael McClure:
        • "from Ghost Tantras"
        • "A Small Secret Book"
      • Diane di Prima:
        • "Prophetissa"
        • "Studies in Light"
    • Kamau Brathwaite: "Stone"
    • Michel Deguy:
      • "'O great apposition of the world'"
      • "'You will be astonished'"
      • "'This lady and her beautiful window'"
      • "To Forget the Image"
    • Amelia Rosseli:
      • "Letter to Her Brother"
      • "from Martial Variations"
      • "Dialogue with the Dead"
    • Gary Snyder:
      • "What You Should Know to Be a Poet"
      • "from Myths & Texts":
        • "first shaman song"
        • "this poem is for bear"
      • "The Hump-backed Flute Player"
  • "The Art of the Manifesto":
    • Paul Celan: "from The Meridian Speech"
    • Charles Olson:
      • "Three Statements":
        • "from The Present is Prologue"
        • "A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul"
        • "The Resistance"
    • John Cage: "from Lecture on Nothing"
    • Edouard Glissant: "from Earth"
    • Situationist International (Guy Debord, et al.): "from All the King's Men"
    • Amiri Baraka: "Black Dada Nihilismus"
    • Adrienne Rich: "from When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision"
    • Nicanor Parra: "Test"
    • George Maciunas: "A Manifesto for Fluxus"
    • Bob Cobbing: "A Statement on Sound Poetry 1969"
    • Henri Chopin: "from Poésie Sonore"
    • Steve McCafferty: "from Text-Sound, Energy and Performance"
    • Dick Higgins: "Intermedia Chart"
    • Denis Roche: "from Le Mécrit: Struggle and Erasure"
    • Edward Sanders: "from Investigative Poetry"
    • Julian Beck: "the state will be served even by poets"
    • Rachel Blau DePlessis: "from Otherhow: Feminist Poetics, Modernism, the Avant-Garde"
    • Carolee Schneemann: "Interior Scroll"
    • Ishmael Reed: "from Neo-HooDoo Manifesto"
    • Adonis: "from Preface"
    • Sujata Bhatt: "from Search for my Tongue"
    • Charles Bernstein: "from Artifice of Absorption"
    • Diane di Prima: "from Rant"
    • "Preamble & Statement for a Council on Counterpoetics"
  • "A Second Gallery":
    • Tchicaya U Tam'si: "The Treasure"
    • Jerome Rothenberg:
      • "That Dada Strain"
      • "from Khurbn"
      • "The Lorca Variations (XXVIII)"
    • Paavo Haavikko:
      • "from The Winter Palace":
        • "The First Poem"
        • "The Second Poem"
    • Tomas Tranströmer: "The Gallery"
    • Ece Ayhan:
      • "No Trace from Hebrew"
      • "The Nigger in a Photograph"
      • "Geranium and the Child"
    • "Some Oral Poets":
      • Maria Sabina: "from The Midnight Velada"
      • Andrew Peynetsa: "The Shumeekuli"
      • Eduardo Calderón: "Raising the Meditating Center and the Field of Evil with the Twenty-Five Thousand Accounts and the Chant of the Ancients"
      • Robert Johnson: "Hellhound on my Trail"
      • Komi Ekpe: "Abuse Poems: For Kodzo & Others"
      • Miss Queenie (Imogene Elizabeth Kennedy): "One Day"
      • Tom Waits: "Swordfishtrombone"
      • After Dizzy Gillespie: "Sabla y Blu"
    • Jacques Roubaud: "from Some Thing Black: Section V"
    • David Antin: "Endangered Nouns"
    • Andrei Voznesensky: 
      • "Look back into the Future"
      • "On the Metamorphoses Brought about by Emotion: The Rebellion of the Eyes"
      • The Genealogy of Crosses"
    • Amiri Baraka:
      • "Numbers, Letters"
      • "Das Kapital"
    • Ted Berrigan:
      • "People of the Future"
      • "from The Sonnets"
    • Inger Christensen: "Alphabet 9, 10"
    • Sarah Kirsch:
      • "'The wels a fish that lives on the bottom'"
      • "'In an airplane I'm supposed to'"
      • "Pandora's Box"
      • "from Kite-Flying":
        • "Mornings"
        • "Call"
        • "Renting a Room"
    • "Postwar Japanese Poetry: The Arechi & After":
      • Tamura Ryüchi: "My Imperialism"
      • Tanikawa Shuntaro: 
        • "from With Silence My Companion"
        • "Cycle of Months (Menstruation)"
      • Ooka Makoto: "'Marilyn'"
      • Shiraishi Kazuko: "The Man Root"
      • Yoshimasu Gozo:
        • "Pulling in the Reins"
        • "Osiris, the God of Stone"
      • Fujii Sadakazu:
        • "from Where Is Japanese Poetry?"
          • "Wolf"
          • "Small Dream"
      • Ito Hiromi: "Near Kitami Station on the Odakyu Line"
    • Clayton Edhleman: "Our Lady of the Three-Pronged Devil"
    • Robert Kelly:
      • "Ode to Language"
      • "The Man Who Loved White Chocolate"
    • Rosmarie Waldrop:
      • "Feverish Propositions"
      • "from A Key into the Language of America"
    • Alejandra Pizarnik: "Paths of the Mirror"
    • Jayne Cortez: "Nighttrains"
    • Kenneth Irby:
      • "Four Poems":
        • "'I met the Angel Sus on the Skin Bridge'"
        • "'slowly the old stone building walls downtown dissolve'"
        • "[trash]"
        • "from [three sets of three]"
    • J. H. Prynne:
      • "from Wound Response":
        • "Of Movement toward a Natural Place"
        • "Landing Area"
        • "Chromatin"
        • "Melanin"
        • "An Evening Walk"
    • Rochelle Owens:
      • "Dedication"
      • "I Am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter"
      • "from W. C. Fields in French Light"
    • Monique Wittig: "from The Lesbian Body"
    • Takahashi Mutsuo:
      • "Monkey-Eaters"
      • "from Self-Portraits":
        • "Myself in the Disguise of an Ancient Queen"
        • "Myself with a Glory Hole"
    • Anne-Marie Albiach: "Winter Voyage"
    • "Neo-Avanguardia":
      • Edoardo Sanguinetti: "The Last Scroll: Homage to Pascoli"
      • Giulia Niccolai: "From the Novissimi"
      • Nanni Balestrini: 
        • "from The Instinct for Self-Preservation"
        • "Tape Mark"
      • Antonio Porta: "To Open"
      • Adriano Spatola:
        • "The Risk of Abstraction"
        • "The Poem Stalin"
    • Susan Howe: 
      • "from Pythagorean Silence"
      • "Scattering as Behavior toward Risk"
    • Tom Phillips:
      • "from A Humument"
      • "from Six of Hearts: Songs for Mary Wiegold"
    • David Meltzer: "from Hero/Lil: The Third Shell"
    • Diane Wakoski:
      • George Washington and the Loss of His Teeth"
      • "The Ice Eagle"
    • Tom Raworth:
      • "Lion Lion"
      • "Jungle Book"
      • "Bolivia: Another End of Ace"
    • Elke Erb: "Text and Commentary"
    • Malay Roy Choudhuri: "Stark Electric Jesus"
    • Göran Sonnevi: 
      • "'Demon colors, dark'"
      • "A Child Is Not a Knife"
    • Clark Coolidge:
      • "from The Crystal Text"
      • "from Baffling Means (with Philip Guston)"
    • "Some 'Language' Poets":
      • Lyn Hejinian: "from My Life"
      • Ron Silliman: "from Ketjak"
      • Bob Perelman: "China"
      • Rae Armantrout: "Native"
      • Barrett Watten: "Complete Thought I-XXV"
      • Bruce Andrews: 
        • "'Zero Tolerance'"
        • "AKA"
      • Charles Bernstein:
        • "Of Time and the Line"
        • "Outrigger"
      • Carla Harryman: "Not-France"
    • Pierre Guyotat: "from Tales of Samora Machel"
    • Mohammed Khäir-Eddine: 
      • "Refusal to Inter"
      • "Barbarian"
    • Simon Ortiz: 
      • "From an Interview"
      • "The Wisconsin Horse"
      • "Final Solution: Jobs, Leaving"
    • Lyn Hejinian: "Oxota, Book 2"
    • Mahmoud Darwish: "from Memory for Forgetfulness"
    • John Taggart: 
      • "Monk"
      • "Slow Song for Mark Rothko"
    • Quincy Troupe: "Avalanche"
    • Nicole Brossard: "from The Barbizon"
    • Michael Palmer:
      • "from Sun"
      • "Sun"
    • Allen Fisher:
      • "Conga"
      • "Continental Walk"
    • bp nichol: "a squence of poems from The Martyrology 7"
    • Charles Stein: "A Parmenides Machine"
    • Alice Notley: "from Désamère"
    • Anne Waldman: "Iovis XIX: Why That's a Blade Can Float"
    • "The Misty Poets":
      • Bei Dao: 
        • "The Answer"
        • "The August Sleepwalker"
        • "'He opens wide a third eye ...'"
      • Duo Duo:
        • "When People Rise from Cheese, Statement #1"
        • "North Sea"
      • Mang Ke: "from ApeHerd"
      • Shu Ting: "The Mirror"
      • Yang Lian: "Crocodile 1-15"
      • Gu Cheng: 
        • "A Generation"
        • "from The Bulin File"
    • Pierre Joris: "from Winnetou Old"
    • Arkadii Dragomoschenko: "A Sentimental Elegy"
    • Nathaniel Mackey: "Song of the Andoumboulou: 15"
    • Habib Tengour: "from Empedocles' Sandal"
    • Leslie Scalapino: "Instead of an Animal"
    • Cecilia Vicuña: "Five Notebooks for Exit Art"
    • Will Alexander: "Albania & the Death of Enver Hoxha"
    • Victor Hernandez Cruz: 
      • "Caminando"
      • "Mesa Blanca"
    • Coral Bracho:
      • "On Contact Opens Its Indigo Pit"
      • "On the Facets: The Flashing"
    • Nina Iskrenko:
      • "Isn't She Not a Bird"
      • "Polystylistics"
    • "Toward a Cyberpoetics: The Poem In the Machine":
      • "First Collage: The Poem in the Machine"
      • Marcel Duchamp: "Rotative Demi-Sphere (Precision Optics) with Pun"
      • Abraham Lincoln Gillespie: "from Readie-Soundpiece (for Bob Brown's Reading Machine)"
      • Steve McCafferty: "from Carnival the First Panel: 1967-70"
      • Bernard Heidsieck: "from Canal Street"
      • Jackson Mac Low: "34th Merzgedicht in memoriam Kurt Schwitters"
      • Jim Rosenberg: "Two Intergrams"
      • John Cayley: "from (Reveal Code): Indra's Net VIII"
      • "Second Collage: Toward a Cyberpoetics"
    • Maggie O'Sullivan:
      • "Narrative Charm for Ibbotroyd"
      • "from Doubtless: 'The Dancer–'"
    • Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: "from Dictée: Elitere (Lyric Poetry)"
  • "Postludes: At the Turning":
    • Robert Duncan: "After a Long Illness"
    • Pierre Joris: "Fin-de-Siècle Identikit"
    • Jerome Rotherberg: "Prologomena to a Poetics"
  • Credits
  • Index of Authors

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