Jerome Rothenberg & John Bloomberg Rissman: 'Poems for the Millennium, volume 5': The 'Table of Contents' (part two)

[What follows is the second half of the table of contents for Barbaric Vast & Wild: A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present, which has been announced for March publication by Black Widow Press.  The first half appeared in Poems and Poetics on February 2, & numerous excerpts from the book-in-progress have appeared there also from time to time.  The work as a whole functions de facto as the fifth volume of Poems for the Millennium.] 

 

GALLERY THREE

A BOOK OF EXTENSIONS

 

(Russian, 19th Century)

Bald Mountain Zaum Poem

 

(American, 19th Century)

Shaker Sound Poem

 

Hildegard Of Bingen (German, 1098-1179)
O Orzchis Ecclesia: An Antiphonal Hymn

 

(Central Europe, 15th/16th Century)

from The Voynich Manuscript

 

Dwight Mackintosh (American, 1906-1999)

Image and Unknown Script

 

Adolf Wölfli (Swiss/German, 1864-1930)
Image and Text

 

Howard Finster (American, 1915-2001)

“Highway to Heaven” & “Guardian Angel”

 

Robert Walser (German, 1878-1956)

Microscripts

 

(Medieval Hebrew)

Masora Calligrams

 

Naftali Bacharach (Hebrew, 17th Century)

The 10 Sefirot as a Wheel of Light

 

John Clare (English, 1793-1864)

Untitled Letter (Vowelless Writing)

 

“Lord” Timothy Dexter (American, 1748-1806)

from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones; or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress

 

(2nd Century B.C. – 5th Century A.D.)

Coptic & Greek Magical Papyri

 

Nakhman Of Breslov (Ukraine/Yiddish, 1772-1810)

The Burnt Book

 

Antonin Artaud (French, 1896-1948)

Spell for Roger Blin

 

Kuo-An Shih-yuan, (Chinese version, 12th Century)

The Ten Oxherding Pictures

 

George Herriman (American, 1880-1944)

from Krazy Kat

 

Ernst Herbeck (Austrian, 1920-1991)

Golden ABCs

 

(Shona, Zimbabwe, 20th Century)

African Praise Names: The Monkey, The Eland

 

Mikhl Likht (American/Yiddish, 1893-1953)

from Processions

 

Hannah Weiner (American, 1928-1997)

from A Clairvoyant Journal

 

Larry Eigner (American, 1927-1996)

from Air The Trees

 

Graham Reynolds, J.A. Lindon (English, 20th Century)

Four Palindromes

 

Lewis Carroll (English, 1832-1898)

10 Syllogisms

 

Eugene Field (American, 1850-1895)

from The Complete Tribune Primer

 

Félix Fénéon (French, 1861-1944)

from Faits Divers

 

(U.K., Contemporary)

from The Library of Unwritten Books

 

Anonymous (American, 20th Century)

Schizophrenic Definitions

 

James Tilly Matthews (English, 1770-1815), as transcribed by John Haslam

Air-Loom Machine

 

Sun Ra [Herman Poole Blount] (American, 1914-1993)

The Wisdom of Ra

 

Shea Zellweger (American, 1925-)

Objects Toward an Outsider Logic

 

Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian, 1889–1951)

from Philosophical Investigations

Graham Harman (American, 1968-)

On Vicarious Causation: A Latour Litany

 

Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (2010)

The Voice Of The Dolphin

 

GALLERY FOUR

A BOOK OF PERFORMANCES

 

Diogenes Of Sinope (Greek, 412 or 404 B.C.– 323 B.C.)

Six Event Pieces

 

(England, 1849)

A Christmas Play, Performed by the Derbyshire Mummers

 

(Quiché Maya, 15th Century A.D.)

Rabinal-Achí, Part Four

 

Harry Partch (American, 1901–1974)

Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California

 

W. [Willis] T. Goodwin (American, 1935-2007)

from Easter Sunrise Sermon, 1971

 

Gilbert Eastman (American Sign Language, 1934-2006)

Epic: Gallaudet Protest

 

POSTLUDES/CODAS

 

Armand Schwerner

Tablet VIII

 

John Bloomberg-Rissman

In The House of the Hangman #1731

 

Jerome Rothenberg

from A Further Witness, for Anselm Hollo