© 2008 AGI-Information Management Consultants May be used for personal purporses only or by libraries associated to dandelon.com network. POEMS for the MILLENNIUM

The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry

Volume Two From Postwar to Millennium

Edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris

University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London CONTENTS

Introduction i

Thanks and Acknowledgments 19

PRELUDE In the Dark

Charles Olson La Preface 23

Paul Celan A Death Fugue 24

Anna Akhmatova from Poem without a Hero: Epilogue 25

Toge Sankichi from Poems of the Atomic Bomb: Dying 29

Rene Depestre Season of Anger 31

Ingeborg Bachmann The Time Allotted 3 2

Antonin Artaud from To Have Done with the Judgment of God 33 CONTINUITIES

Gertrude Stein from The Mother of Us All: Concluding Aria 41

Wallace Stevens Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself 41

James Joyce from Finnegans Wake 42

William Carlos Williams from Paterson, Book Three 43

Ezra Pound Canto 116 47

H. D. from Hermetic Definition: Red Rose and a Beggar (1-9) 49

Hugh MacDiarmid The Glass of Pure Water 54

Andre Breton from Ode to Charles Fourier 57

Henri Michaux from Saisir 5 9

Louis Zukofsky from "A" 12 60

Pablo Neruda from The Heights ofMacchu Picchu 64

Gunnar Ekelof from Molna Elegy 66

Muriel Rukeyser The Speed of Darkness 70

Aime Cesaire from /, Laminaria 73

Contents A FIRST GALLERY

Marie Luise Kaschnitz My Ground 79 Who Would Have Thought It 79

Vladimir Holan from A Night with Hamlet 82

Samuel Beckett Imagination Dead Imagine 86

George Oppen Psalm 89 Myth of the Blaze 90

Yannis Ritsos The Meaning of Simplicity 92 Naked Face 93 Erotica XII 94 from 3 X 111 Tristychs 95

Charles Olson "my memory is .. ." 97 "Peloria ..." 97 The Moon Is the Number 18 97 Maximus, from Dogtown-II 99 "Added to ..." 101

Edmond Jabes from The Book of Questions "The Jew answers every question with another question" 103 The Book of the Living 104 "Have you seen how a word is born and dies?" 107

John Cage [Epigraph] "If there were a part of life dark enough . . ." 108 from Song Books: Solo for Voice 17 Song with Electronics (Relevant) 108 Two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham no from Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) 196j in

Contents THE VIENNA GROUP

H. C. Artmann [Untitled] 117 "an optician has a glass heart" 118

Friederike Ma/rocker Ostia Will Receive You 120

Ernst Jandl Chanson 121 Calypso 121 Preliminary Studies for the Frankfurt Readings 1984 122

Gerhard Riihm Flower Piece 124 A Few Things 124

Konrad Bayer from The Philosopher's Stone 125 The White and the Black Bones: 126

Nicanor Parra The Individual's Soliloquy 127

Octavio Paz from Blanco 131

Bert Schierbeek The Sun: Day 135 The Animal Has Drawn a Human 136

Robert Duncan Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow 138 At the Loom Passages 2 139 In Blood's Domaine 142

Yoshioka Minoru Pilgrimage 144

Paul Celan Breathcrystal 148

Mohammed Dib from Formulaires . 155

xiv Contents Amos Tutuola from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: Television-handed Ghostess 158

Helmut Heissenbiittel Didactic Poem on the Nature of History, A.D.1954 160 Combination II 161 from Textbook 10 162

Jackson Mac Low Asymmetry 205 165 from The Pronouns —A Collection of 40 Dances — for the Dancers 165 3rd Light Poem: For Spencer, Beate, & Sebastian Hoist— 12 June 1962 166 Pieces o'Six—II 167

Pier Paolo Pasolini from A Desperate Vitality 171

Vasko Popa Burning Shewolf 177

THE TAMMUZI POETS

Yusufal-Khal Cain the Immortal 183 The Wayfarers 184

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab The River and Death 185

Adonis from A Desire Moving through the Maps of the Material 187

Muhammad al-Maghut Executioner of Flowers 196

Unsi al-Hajj The Charlatan 199

Contents Denise Levertov The Jacob's Ladder 201 Age of Terror 201

Yehuda Amichai National Thoughts 204 Elegy 204 Near the Wall of a House 205

Friederike Mayrocker "the spirit of '76 " 206

Emmett Williams from The Red Chair (for three voices) 210 from The Ultimate Poem 213

Robin Blaser Image-Nation 22 (in memoriam 217

Ernesto Cardenal In xochitl in cuicatl ^ 221

Rosario Castellanos Two Meditations 226 Two Poems 227

Claude Gauvreau Trustful Fatigue and Reality 230 The Leg of Mutton Createur 230

COBRA

Asger Jorn, with Christian Dotremont from Word-Pictures 236

Christian Dotremont Logogramme 237 Some Lapland Views 238

Karel Appel Mad Talk 239

Gerrit Kouwenaar Elba 240 4 Variations On 241

xvi Contents Lucebert Rousseau le Douanier 243 9000 Jackals Swimming to Boston 243

Pierre Alechinsky Ad Miro • 245

Hugo Claus The Tollund Man 246

Ian Hamilton Finlay from Heroic Emblems (with Ron Costley 8c Stephen Bann) 250 from Images from the Arcadian Dream Garden 252 The Garden Temple 256

Ingeborg Bachmann Curriculum Vitae 257

Paul Blackburn Phone Call to Rutherford 261 At the Well 261 The Net of Place 264

Robert Creeley The Whip 266 Anger 267

Rene Depestre from A Rainbow for the Christian West: Three Loas Cap'tain Zombi 273 Baron-Samedi 275 Chango 276

Allen Ginsberg [Epigraph] "I saw the best minds ..." 278 Mescaline 278 Krai Majales 280

Robert Filliou, per George Brecht from 14 Songs and 1 Riddle 283

Contents xvii Frank O'Hara The Day Lady Died 289 Homosexuality 290 Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets 290

John Ashbery from Flow Chart 292

Larry Eigner "explanation / tangent things" 297 Winter (January / February 1978) 297 "ah, so, yes" 299 [Three Poems 1989] 300

CONCRETE POETRY

Eugen Gomringer Two Poems mist /mountain / butterfly 304 hang and swinging hang and swinging 304

Ian Hamilton Finlay Poster Poem 306

Emmett Williams Like Attracts Like 307

Seiichi NTkuni Rain 308

Use Gamier & Pierre Gamier Extension 2: Soleil 309

Seiichi NTkuni & Pierre Gamier from Poemes franco-japonais 310

Haroldo de Campos from Transient Servitude 311

Augusto de Campos Eye for Eye 316

Karl Young Bookforms 317

xviii Contents Armand Schwerner from The Tablets 3 20

Anne Sexton from The Jesus Papers 326

Bernard Heidsieck from Derviche I Le Robert: The Letter "K" 331

Joyce Mansour In the Gloom on the Left 334 Going and Coming of Sequins 335

Nathaniel Tarn from Lyrics for the Bride of God 338

Hannah Weiner Two Code Poems from the International Code of Signals 342 from Clairvoyant Journal 344 Sand 345

Edward Dorn from Gunslinger I 346

Adrienne Rich The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message 351 The Phenomenology of Anger 352

Chinua Achebe Bull and Egret 357 We Laughed at Him 359

SOME "BEAT" POETS

William S. Burroughs Fear and the Monkey 3 64

Jack Kerouac from Mexico City Blues: 211th Chorus 365

Bob Kaufman I AM A CAMERA 366 "All those ships that never sailed" 3 66 January 30,1976: Message to Myself 367

Contents xix Allen Ginsberg America 368

Gregory Corso The Mad Yak Transformation 8c Escape

Michael McClure from Ghost Tantras 374 A Small Secret Book 375 Diane di Prima Prophetissa 377 Studies in Light 379

Kamau Brathwaite Stone 381

Michel Deguy "O great apposition of the world" 386 "You will be astonished" 386 "This lady and her beautiful window" 387 To Forget the Image 387

Amelia Rosselli Letter to Her Brother 390 from Martial Variations 390 Dialogue with the Dead 392 Gary Snyder What You Should Know to Be a Poet 395 from Myths & Texts first shaman song 396 this poem is for bear 397 The Hump-backed Flute Player 398

THE ART OF THE MANIFESTO

Paul Celan from The Meridian Speech 408

Contents Charles Olson THREE STATEMENTS from The Present Is Prologue 409 A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul 410 The Resistance 412

John Cage from Lecture on Nothing 413

Edouard Glissant from Earth 416

Situationist International (Guy Debord, et al.) from All the King's Men 417

Amiri Baraka Black Dada Nihilismus 420

Adrienne Rich from When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision 422

Nicanor Parra Test 423

George Maciunas A Manifesto for Fluxus 425

Bob Cobbing A Statement on Sound Poetry 1969 426

Henri Chopin from Poesie Sonore 427

Steve McCaffery from Text-Sound, Energy and Performance 427

Dick Higgins Intermedia Chart 428

Denis Roche from Le Mecrit: Struggle and Erasure 429

Edward Sanders from Investigative Poetry 430

Julian Beck the state will be served even by poets 432

Contents xx! Rachel Blau DuPlessis from Otherhow: Feminist Poetics, Modernism, the Av ant-Garde 433

Carolee Schneemann Interior Scroll 436

Ishmael Reed from Neo-HooDoo Manifesto 440

Adonis from Preface 441

Sujata Bhatt from Search for My Tongue 443

Charles Bernstein from Artifice of Absorption 446

Diane di Prima from Rant 449

Preamble & Statement for a Council on Counterpoetics 451

A SECOND GALLERY

Tchicaya U Tam'si The Treasure 457

Jerome Rothenberg That Dada Strain 465 from Khurbn 466 The Lorca Variations (XXVIII) 471

Paavo Haavikko from The Winter Palace The First Poem 473 The Second Poem 475

Tomas Transtromer The Gallery 477

Ece Ayhan To Trace from Hebrew 482 The Nigger in a Photograph 482 Geranium and the Child 483

xx ii Contents SOME ORAL POETS

Maria Sabina from The Midnight Velada 487

Andrew Peynetsa The Shumeekuli 490

Eduardo Calderon Raising the Mediating Center and the Field of Evil with the Twenty-Five Thousand Accounts and the Chant of the Ancients 495

Robert Johnson Hellhound on My Trail 499

Komi Ekpe Abuse Poems: For Kodzo &c Others 500

Miss Queenie (Imogene Elizabeth Kennedy) One Day 502

Tom Waits Swordfishtrombone 504

After Dizzy Gillespie Sabla y Blu 505

Jacques Roubaud from Some Thing Black: Section V 507

David Antin Endangered Nouns 513

Andrei Voznesensky Look back into the Future 519 On the Metamorphoses Brought about by Emotion: The Rebellion of the Eyes 519 The Genealogy of Crosses 5 20

Amiri Baraka Numbers, Letters 522 Das Kapital 524

Contents xxiii Ted Berrigan People of the Future 526 from The Sonnets 526

Inger Christensen Alphabet 9, 10 530

Sarah Kirsch "The wels a fish that lives on the bottom" 535 "In an airplane I'm supposed to" 536 Pandora's Box 537 from Kite-Flying Mornings 537 Call 537 Renting a Room 538

POSTWAR JAPANESE POETRY The Arechi & After

Tamura Ryuichi My Imperialism

Tanikawa Shuntaro from With Silence My Companion 543 Cycle of Months (Menstruation) 543 OokaMakoto "Marilyn" 544

Shiraishi Kazuko The Man Root 547

Yoshimasu Gozo Pulling in the Reins 549 Osiris, the God of Stone 55O

Fujii Sadakazu from Where Is Japanese Poetry? Wolf S52- Small Dream 553

I to Hirorni Near Kitami Station on the Odakyu Line 555

Clayton Eshleman Our Lady of the Three-Pronged Devil 558

xxiv Contents Robert Kelly Ode to Language 562 The Man Who Loved White Chocolate - 563

Rosmarie Waldrop Feverish Propositions 568 from A Key into the Language of America 570

Alejandra Pizarnik Paths of the Mirror 572

Jayne Cortez Nighttrains 576

Kenneth Irby FOUR POEMS "I met the Angel Sus on the Skin Bridge" 579 "slowly the old stone building walls downtown dissolve" 579 [trash] 580 from [three sets of three] 581

J. H. Prynne from Wound Response Of Movement towards a Natural Place 583 Landing Area 584 Chromatin 585 Melanin 585 An Evening Walk 586

Rochelle Owens Dedication 588 I Am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter 589 from W. C. Fields in French Light 590

Monique Wittig from The Lesbian Body 595

Takahashi Mutsuo Monkey-Eaters 598 from Self-Portraits Myself in the Disguise of an Ancient Queen 598 Myself with a Glory Hole 599

Anne-Marie Albiach Winter Voyage 601

Contents NEO-AVANGUARDIA

Edoardo Sanguineti The Last Stroll: Homage to Pascoli 608

Giulia Niccolai From the Novissimi 610

Nanni Balestrini from The Instinct of Self-Preservation 613 Tape Mark 614

Antonio Porta To Open 615

Adriano Spatola The Risk of Abstraction 617 The Poem Stalin 618

Susan Howe from Pythagorean Silence 620 Scattering as Behavior toward Risk 621

Tom Phillips from A Humument 626 from Six of Hearts: Songs for Mary Wiegold 629

David Meltzer from HerolLil: The Third Shell 630

Diane Wakoski George Washington and the Loss of His Teeth 63 5 The Ice Eagle 636

Tom Raworth Lion Lion 640 Jungle Book 640 Bolivia: Another End of Ace 640

Elke Erb Text and Commentary 644

Malay Roy Choudhury Stark Electric Jesus 649

xxvi Contents Goran Sonnevi "Demon colors, dark" 652 A Child Is Not a Knife 654

Clark Coolidge from The Crystal Text 657 from Baffling Means (with Philip Guston) 660

SOME"LANGUAGE"POETS

Lyn Hejinian from My Life 664

Ron Silliman from Ketjak 665

Bob Perelman China 667

Rae Armantrout Native 669

Barrett Watten Complete Thought I-XXV 670

Bruce Andrews "Zero Tolerance" 673 AKA 673

Charles Bernstein Of Time and the Line 674 Outrigger 675

Carla Harryman Not-France 677

Pierre Guyotat from Tales ofSamora Machel 680

Mohammed Khair-Eddine Refusal to Inter 683 Barbarian 685

Contents xxvii Simon Ortiz From an Interview 687 The Wisconsin Horse 688 Final Solution: Jobs, Leaving 691

Lyn Hejinian Oxota, Book 2 692

Mahmoud Darwish from Memory for Forgetfulness 698

John Taggart Monk 703 Slow Song for Mark Rothko 704

Quincy Troupe Avalanche 708

Nicole Brassard iromThe Barbizon 712

Michael Palmer hom Sun 718 Sun 720

Allen Fisher Conga 723 Continental Walk 725

bp Nichol a sequence of poems from The Martyrology 7 728

Charles Stein A Parmenides Machine 733

Alice Notley from Desamere J^,J

Anne Waldman lovis XIX: Why That's a Blade Can Float 745

xxviii Contents THE MISTY POETS

Bei Dao The Answer 753 The August Sleepwalker 754 "He opens wide a third eye ..." 755

Duo Duo When People Rise from Cheese, Statement #1 756 North Sea 756

Mang Ke from ApeHerd 758

Shu Ting The Mirror 762

Yang Lian Crocodile 1-15 763

Gu Cheng A Generation 766 from The Bulin File 766

Pierre Joris from Winnetou Old 770

Arkadii Dragomoschenko A Sentimental Elegy 774

Nathaniel Mackey Song of the Andoumboulou: 15 778

Habib Tengour from Empedocles' Sandal 783

Leslie Scalapino Instead of an Animal 789

Cecilia Vicuna Five Notebooks for Exit Art 792

Will Alexander Albania 8c the Death of Enver Hoxha 798

Contents xxix Victor Hernandez Cruz Caminando 804 Mesa Blanca 804

Coral Bracho On Contact Opens Its Indigo Pit 807 On the Facets: The Flashing 809

Nina Iskrenko Isn't She Not a Bird 813 Polystylistics 814

TOWARD A CYBERPOETICS The Poem in the Machine

First Collage: The Poem in the Machine 817

Marcel Duchamp Rotative Demi-Sphere (Precision Optics) with Pun 819 Abraham Lincoln Gillespie from Readie-Soundpiece (for Bob Brown's Reading Machine) 820

Steve McCaffery from Carnival the First Panel: 1967-70 822

Bernard Heidsieck horn Canal Street 823

Jackson Mac Low 34th Merzgedicht in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters 825

Jim Rosenberg Two Intergrams 826

John Cayley from (Reveal Code): Indra's Net VIII 827

Second Collage: Toward a Cyberpoetics 829

Maggie O'Sullivan Narrative Charm for Ibbotroyd 830 from Doubtless: "The Dancer-" 831

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha from Dictee: Elitere Lyric Poetry 836

xxx Contents POSTLUDES At the Turning

Robert Duncan After a Long Illness 847

Pierre Joris Fin-de-Siecle Identikit 849

Jerome Rothenberg Prologomena to a Poetics 853

Credits 857

Index of Authors 869

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