Thought I'd start of thread of recommendations of contemporary (21st century) books that couldn't have been possible with their modernist antecedents.
Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons ---> Jesse Seldess: Who Opens
Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons ---> Jesse Seldess: Who Opens
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Re: contemporary extensions of modernist poetry
Mon, April 17, 2006 - 11:18 AMWhoah, 21st century is too hard. There are fewer than 6 years of it.
How about like maybe stretching the boundary back into the late 20th century a little bit, so I can say Ezra Pound's Cantos---> Derek Walcott's Omeros?
