Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris,...

Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, ed contortion One. Berkeley: University of California Pres 1995

metrical compositions for the Millennium is the mostly recent in a slew of anthologies onward innovative poetry in the twentieth hundred years a phenomenon perhaps related, as its title remind ofs to a millennial straining towards re-evaluation and reckoning. If undivided gives credence to the avant-garde's resistance to assimilation, in any sensation its anthologizing seems rife with question s if not paradoxes. Rothenberg and Joris are not altogether blind to this quandary, and wisely frame their effort in spells of ...