Barbaric Vast & Wild: A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present

Jerome Rothenberg is an Internationally celebrated poet, translator, editor, and experimentalist, he is also the editor of several groundbreaking anthologies, most recently, with Pierre Joris, of Poems for the Millennium (University of California, 1995 and 1998). His fifty years of writing include almost 80 published books and writings that have been included in major anthologies around the world. He resides in California. John Bloomberg-Rissman's most recent publications are No Sounds Of My Own Making, World Zero, and (forthcoming) A Spectrum of Other Instances. He resides in California.

Barbaric Vast and Wild is the crowning jewel of the Poems for the Millennium series...the mad eclecticism of this anthology is its greatest virtue - it moves in leaps and bounds, like Nijinsky on peyote. It defies any category previously existing and yet as a reader I feel I get it, get it again, and get it over and again, as I am pulled in different directions...stunning and unexpected. -- Michael Davidson