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POEMS for the MILLENNIUM 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
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