To begin ...

As the twentieth century fades out
the nineteenth begins
.......................................again
it is as if nothing happened
though those who lived it thought
that everything was happening
enough to name a world for & a time
to hold it in your hand
unlimited.......the last delusion
like the perfect mask of death

Monday, February 2, 2015

Jerome Rothenberg & John Bloomberg Rissman: Poems for the Millennium, volume 5: the Table of Contents (part one)

Adolf Wölfli, Campbell’s Tomato Soup, 1923
 [The book itself – Barbaric Vast & Wild: A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present – has been announced or re-announced for March publication by Black Widow Press.  What follows is the first half of the table of contents, with the rest to appear here in a week or so.] 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

               Pre-Face 2014 

               Thanks & Acknowledgements

Gallery One
A Book of Visions 

(ca. 13,000 B.C.)
Figures in the Dark: The Dancer at Trois Frères

(Egyptian, Pyramid Texts, 2400-2300 B.C.)
The Dead King Hunts & Eats the Gods

(Hebrew, 10th Century B.C.)
From The First Book of Samuel 

Kassandra (between 1200 & 800 B.C.) per Aiskhylos [Aeschylus] (525 B.C. – 456 B.C.)
Kassandra’s Cry                                                                              
 
Ezekiel The Prophet (Hebrew, fl. 590 B.C.)
The Vision of the Chariot
 
Empedocles Of Akragas (Greek, ca. 490-430 B.C.)
On Nature: Fragments 1-10 

(Pali, 1st Century B.C.)
from Theragāthā and Therīgāthā 

John Of Patmos (Greek, 1st Century A.D.)
from The Book of Revelation 

(Coptic, ca. 2nd /3rd Century A.D.)
from The Gospel of Judas                                                              

(Coptic, before 350 A.D.)
from Thunder, Perfect Mind

Ibn Tarafah (Arabic, 543-569 A.D.)
A Hanging Ode
 
(Soninke, Africa, 4th -12th Century A.D.)                                                          
Gassire’s Lute
 
Amirgen White Knee (Old Irish, 7th Century A.D.)
The Cauldron of Poesy
 
Caedmon (Old English, 7th Century A.D.)  
Poem & Vision 
 
Han-Shan (China, 9th Century A.D.)
from The Cold Mountain Poems

Husayn Ibn Mansur al-Hallaj (Persian, 10th Century A.D.)
from The Diwan

Hildegard Of Bingen (Germany/Latin, 1098-1179) 
from Scivias: Part One, Vision 3, the Cosmic Egg

Dante Alighieri (Italian, 1265-1321)
Inferno, Canto IV: A Paradise of Poets
 
Ikkyū (Japanese, 1394-1481)
Poem with Skeletons
 
Drukpa Kunley (Tibetan/Bhutanese, 1455-1529) 
The Sutra of Sex

Kabir (Hindi, 1440–1518)
Six Bhakti Poems 

Michel De Nostredame [Nostradamus] (French, 1503–1566)
from The Prophecies
 
Thomas Rawlin (England/Latin, fl. 1611)
An Alchemical Poem: A Magicall Ænigma
 
Abiezer Coppe (English, 1619–1672) 
from A Fiery Flying Roule and A Second Fiery Flying Roule

Jacob Frank (Polish, Yiddish, 1726-1791)
from The Words of the Lord

(Mayan, ca. 17th Century)

Incantation for Jaguar Macaw Madness, for the Desire this Madness Brings
 
Karawe (Siberia/Chuckchee, fl. ca. 1896)
Things Seen by the Shaman Karawe
 
(English, 16th /17th Century)
Tom O’ Bedlam Songs
 
Christopher Smart (English, 1722-1771)
from Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb)

Joanna Southcott  (English, 1750-1814)
At the Time the Horror of the Devil Was upon Me, I Felt I Could Not Bear My Existence : Therefore I Desired Mrs. Underwood to Take Away Every Knife Out of The Room …

William Blake (English, 1757-1827) 
from The Marriage of Heaven & Hell

Friederich Hölderlin (German, 1770-1843) 
Palimpsest: from Mnemosyne

Emily Dickinson (American, 1830-1886) 
Much Madness is Divinest Sense, & Other Poems
 
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
from The Madness Letters, Signed The Crucified

Arthur Rimbaud (French, 1854-1891)
Farewell
 
Adolf Wölfli (Swiss/German, 1864-1930)
Three from Adolf Wölfli 
 
Aloïse Corbaz (Swiss/French, 1886-1964)
Texts from a Sketchbook: The Theater of the Universe

Antonin Artaud (French, 1896-1948) 
from Interjections 

María Sabina (Mexico/Mazatec, 1888-1985)
from The Mushroom Velada
 
Gallery Two
A Book Of Voices
 
Antoine ó Reachtabhra [Blind Raftery] (Irish/Gaelic, 1784-1835)
I Am Raifteiri
 
(Pali, 1st Century B.C.)
Uppalavanna Sutta: Sister Uppalavanna

William Langland
(Middle English, ca. 1330 – ca. 1400)
from Piers Plowman: “I Am Imaginative” he said
 
Mirabai (Rajasthani/Hindi, ca. 1498 – ca. 1557)
Three Songs
 
Gwerful Mechain (Welsh, fl. 1462-1500)
Ode to the Pubic Hair
 
Francois Villon (French, ca. 1431 - after 5 January 1463)
The Ballad of Villon & Fat Madge
L’épitaphe Villon: Ballade des Pendus
 
(English, 17th Century)
The Maunder’s Praise of His Strowling Mort: A Canting Song
 
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (English, 1647-1680)
A Ramble in St. James’s Park
 
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexico/Spanish, 1651-1695)
Two Dialect Poems

Giuseppe Belli (Italy/Romanesco, 1791-1863)
Six Roman Sonnets: for the Pope

(French, 18th Century)
Qu'une Bâtarde De Catin: Underground Verses from 18th-Century France
 
Kobayashi Issa (Japanese, 1763-1827)
Fourteen Haiku
 
Ernest Jones (English, 1819-1869)   
Song of the Low

(English, traditional)
Songs of Experience & Desperation, from The Real Mother Goose
 
Joe Hill (American, 1879-1915)
The Preacher & The Slave
 
(French, May 1968)                                                                                                     
May 1968 Graffiti
 
Steve McCaffery (Canada/West Riding of Yorkshire dialect, 1947-) 
The Kommunist Manifesto or Wot We Wukkerz Want

(English, 2011)
from Tweets from Engels a Poem
 
Johnny Cassidy (Irish, 20th Century)
Irish Traveller Narratives & Poems
 
(Chinese, 20th Century)
Eleven Pai-Hua (Colloquial) Poems
 
(Chinese, 1910-1940)
Angel Island Poems
 
(Morocco/Berber, traditional)
The Song of the Azria

(Andaluz Gypsy/Spanish, 20th century)
Deep Song
 
Ned Kelly (Australian Irish, 1854/5-1880)
from The Jerilderie Letter 10 February 1879
      
Arthur Flegenheimer [“Dutch Schultz”] (American, 1902-1935)
from The Last Words of Dutch Schultz

Jacob Carpenter (American, 1833-1920)
from Deaths on Three-Mile Creek 1841-1915

(English, 20th Century)
The Death of Mickey Thump, a Funeral

Charles Reznikoff (American, 1894-1976)
from Testimony – The United States (1885 - 1915) Recitative

Jean Genet (French, 1910-1986)
from Our Lady of the Flowers

Binoy Majumdar (Bengali, 1934-2006)
Six Poems from Phire Eso Chaka (Come Back, O Wheel)

Ahmed Taraoui (Algeria/French, ca. 1940-  )
from The Ahmed Fragments
                                                            
Harry Smith  (American, 1923-1991)
from American Folk Music: A Collage

(Chile/Argentina, contemporary)
Three Mapuche Poets

Taller Leñateros Workshop (Mexico/Tzotzil Maya, contemporary)
from Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women

Essie Pinola Parrish (California/Kashaya Pomo, 1902-1979)
Essie Parrish in New York

Ko Un (Korean, 1933-)
from Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives)

Shmuel Marvil (Poland/Yiddish, 1906-1943)
"Poetry in Hell"

[to be continued]

1 comment:

humphreyking said...

This looks like a very exciting collection.