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Explorers
A Collection of Cotemporary Literature
Edited By:
Dr.
Santosh Kumar
Binding: Paperback ISBN: 81-8253-018-0
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within 1 to 2 days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net, India Pub. Date: 2004 Condition: New Description: Explorers
features some of the best poems by 21st century
poets from all over the world. This collection
includes the works of hundred poets differing in
style and belonging to different nations. The
great diversity and range of themes proves the
rich wealth of English poetry in the 21st century.
In several poems the reader will encounter the
plain, unornamental language really used by common
man, and this goes straight to the heart. We also
notice that many poems in Explorers possess
universality revealing more than a temporary or
local interest, since great poetry transcends
geographical boundaries. The subtle sense of the
mysterious and unknown, and an inner joy due to
manifestations of Beauty wherever they may be
visible helps these poets included in Explorers to
get away from the grim pressure of brutal reality.
Some of these poets are Imagists reacting against
romantic excess, and creating "hard,
brilliant, clear effects instead of the soft,
dreamy vagueness or the hollow Miltonic
rhetoric."
PREFACE
Cyberwit's latest World Poetry Anthology Explorers includes several poets inspired more by sensations
than thoughts, and therefore they remind us of
Keats' (1795-1821) theory of poetry. In one of
his letters, Keats says: "First I think that
poetry should surprise by fine excess and not by
singularity-it should strike the reader as a
wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear
almost a remembrance. Second, its touches of
Beauty should never be half way, thereby making
the reader breathless instead of content: the
rise, the progress, the setting of imagery should
like the sun, come natural to him, shine over him,
and set soberly although in magnificence, leaving
him in the luxury of delight."
It
is difficult to agree with Byron criticizing
Keats-"this miserable self-polluter of human
mind". The poems selected for Explorers not only show the influence of Keats' mature poetry like Hyperion and the great odes,
but they are also full of both modern and postmodern characteristics.
The emphasis in the Romantic poetry was on the
poet, but during the Modern era the emphasis is
more on the poem itself. T. S.Eliot (1889-1965)
says, "We can only say that a poem, in some
sense, has its own life; that its parts form
something quite different from a body of neatly
ordered biographical data; that the feeling, or
emotion, or vision, resulting from the poem is
something different from the feeling or emotion or
vision in the mind of the poet" (The Sacred
Wood). After the Second World War, Walt
Whitman's impassioned celebration of the
individual (Song of Myself) was not enough.
During 1950s, the Beat poets, the San Francisco
poets, the Black Mountain poets and the New York
School of poets
gave a new direction to poetry. The slogan of the
New York school of poets was: "Try to be the
work yourself". The Black Mountain poets were so
called, because they lived and wrote together at
Black Mountain college in North Carolina. For the
Black Mountain artists like Franz Kline, William
de Kooning, John Cage, Charles Olson, and several
others, 'stripped-down poems' were more
important than violent self-pity.
The
present anthology Explorers includes a few
poems written in an "anti-rules" fashion, a
post-modern characteristic asserting "we can
never really know anything" (Rosenau). I have
avoided the poets influenced by the decadent
English authors writing during 1890s. W. B. Yeats
aptly says: " The 'Nineties' tried your game
\ And died, there's nothing in it" (Collected
Poems, 1950). T. S. Eliot also criticized
'the annual scourge of the Georgian
anthology'. My point is that the poets writing
in the 21st century cannot and should
not write poems which are conformist and
complacent. We are living in incredibly gloomy
times infected by most vehement memories of two
World wars, Afghan and Iraq war, and terrorist
attacks creating a spiritual vacuum, therefore it
would be highly unrealistic to write now like the
Edwardian and Georgian poets in England, because
the 19th century Victorian era was full
of stability, dogma, stability and complacence.
The sentimental 'lisping and vowelled purity'
fails to satisfy the modern and post-modern psyche
both. A torrent of some of the best poems pouring from the Cyberwit
makes it evident that the genius of expression has
not disappeared in such blighted and cursed times.
There is almost a miraculous renaissance of the
poetic talent in the first decade of the 21st century, and an increasingly large number of poems
received by me is a conclusive evidence that
Poetry has not vanished, whatever its critics
might say. "There ought to be an active
literature for if its literature be not active, a
nation will die at the top" (Ezra Pound, Polite
Essays).
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