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By: Dr.
Santosh Kumar Binding:
Paperback (pp: 320)
ISBN: 81-901366-5-8 Availability: In
Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher:
Cyberwit.net, Allahabad, India Pub. Date:
2003 Condition: New
Description:
The
Postmodern Temperaments: Fifteen Poets features
poems by Adam Gaucher, Alexander Shaumyan,
Christine Kempster, Colette, Daniel W. Gonzales,
Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Darla E. Fitzgerald, Del
Senkbeil, Henry Victor, Herbert L. Burd, Janet I.
Buck, John Dempsey, Kazuyosi Ikeda, Richard Conrad
Henry, Serge van Duijnhoven.. Their poetry shows
the impact of psychology, anthropology,
metaphysics, quest for new values to guide our
life in a world almost conquered by Information
Technology, globalization, and terrorism. Are we
facing the moral, intellectual and social crisis?
... all these contemporary poets reveal the
sensibility of the post-modern era in their own
individual voice and rhythm. All 15 poets seem to
affirm the human values which the Machine Age
threatens to destroy. The most extraordinary thing
about these poets is their diversity in
excellence, and their faith in "a series of
luminous points" or intensities.
The
variety of these poems is evident, and the fifteen
authors succeed in writing poems full of grace and
classic charm, even without indulging in 'parodies of
middle ages'. Postmodernism according to Charles Jencks
is 'disruption from within, refusing to submerge
difference into universalism and therefore preserving
multiplicity and local cultures' (Postmodern
Theory: The Current Debate, 1992, ed. Patricia
Waugh). The
Postmodern Temperaments features the best work of
the great masters of contemporary world poetry in
English. The large number of selected poems by each poet
contributes to a full revelation of
the characteristic quality and main theme of
these remarkable authors.
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