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

By Jerome Rothenberg

Book Overview

A classic and epochal anthology of the poetry of the early avant-garde, from the fabled to the forgotten

Jerome Rothenberg has raised the anthology to an art form. His most recent publication, Poems for the Millennium (University of California Press, 1995) reevaluates Modernism from a global perspective. Shaking the Pumpkin (1972) and America a Prophecy (1973) diversified the canon long before "multi-culturalism." And his 1974 Revolution of the Word remains an unparalleled collection of American avant-garde writing from between the wars. Nearly 25 years after its first publication, this long out-of-print collection is still xeroxed for college courses because it contains works that are otherwise unavailable (by Else von Freytag-Loringhoven, Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, et al.), and because it places some of the most popular writers of the century--e.e cummings, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein--in their original context: the anarchistic experimentation of early Modernism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878972243
• ISBN13: 9781878972248
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Exact Change
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.0"