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Barbaric Vast & Wild is a continuation and a possible culmination of the project that began with Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred in 1968 and led to the first four volumes of Poems for the Millennium in the 1990s and 2000s. In this new and equally groundbreaking volume, Rothenberg and John Bloomberg-Rissman have assembled a wide-ranging gathering of poems and related language works, whose outside/outsider and subterranean/subversive positions challenge some of the boundaries to where poetry has been or may be practiced, as well as the form and substance of the poetry itself. It also extends the time frame of the preceding volumes in Poems for the Millennium, hoping to show that, in all places and times, what the dominant culture has taken as poetry has only been part of the story.

Cecile Perin (1877-1956) was born in Reims, France. Widely respected at a time in France when women poets were often ignored, she had her first book published in 1907. She went on to have some 20 plus volumes of her poetry published. Despite this widespread popularity, her work is virtually unknown in the United States. Norman R. Shapiro, multiple award winning and renowned translator, has taken it upon himself to put out the ultimate tribute book to Cecile Perin's poetry. This 720 page selected poems covers all of her published volumes, and presents it in a bi-lingual French-English format. Introductions and a preface provide the context of the poems and the book.

Jerry Ward, Distinguished Honorary Professor (2015-2017) at Central China Normal University, is the author ofTHE KATRINA PAPERS: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery(2008) and co-editor of theCambridge History of African American Literature(2011). Ward spent 32 years as the Lawrence Durgin Professor of Literature at Tougaloo College and 10 years as Professor of English at Dillard University. Recognized as one of the leading experts on Richard Wright, he is a founding member of the Richard Wright Circle and co-editedThe Richard Wright Encyclopedia(2008). He lives in New Orleans and has numerous publications both in the USA and in China"

Soraya is a series of 100 sonnets which take the exuberance of sound as the beginning (and end) point of meaning: it is a driven experiment in the baroque potentialities of sonic texture, poetic "technique" both provoked to the extreme and deconstructed in its very creation.

Poet Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) is considered one of the creators of modernism: part-symbolist, part post-impressionist, he was one of the first poets to write in free verse. He heavily influenced such modern poets as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. This is a completely revised and greatly augmented version of Patricia Terry's now classic 1958 edition of this work. Fully bilingual edition (French-English) Terry fully captures Laforgues intricate word play, puns, and rhythm in a way lacking in many modern translations. Great introduction to this poet.

Translated into English, this title presents a discourse on the re-invention of love but beginning on a sombre note of suicide.

A poetic meditation and collection of aphorisms on the art of literary translation by one of the most respected translators in the US. Translating literatures East and West, ancient and modern, Barnstone has proven insights to share, and does so in a light and humorous way though verse.

A poet of undeniable stature, the Comtesse de Noailles was respected and beloved by France's literary and lay population alike, counting among her admirers Proust, Cocteau, and Collete. She was the only female poet of her time in France to receives the highest public recognitions, including the first woman to become a Commander of the Legion of Honor. Noailles contructed an original poetic world view, drawing inspiration from Greek paganism and in Nietzsche's radical thought. Her work is often described as ecstatic, sensual, erotic, sometimes violent, and usually marked by a tragic undercurrent. The only anthology of her works in English.

Internationally known collage artist Bernard Bador has been writing some of the most uniquely surrealist poetry of the modern era. This title presents an overview of his works.

Paul Eluard (1895-1952) is widely considered to be one of France's most important poets. This title translates Eluard's "Love, Poetry" ("L'amour la poesie", 1929) into English.