Anne Waldman Knihy

Sbírka Žena v řeči bystrá vyšla poprvé v roce 1975; ke dvacátému výročí ji vydalo nakladatelství City Lights Books v rozšířené podobě. Její český překlad víceméně zachovává tuto verzi. Samotná báseň Žena v řeči bystrá zachycuje fascinaci mexickou šamankou Marií Sabinou a zaříkávadly jakožto důležitým žánrem současné performativní poezie. Dále sbírka obsahuje zaklínadla, vzývání, žalozpěvy, rituální deklamace, básně-cestopisy a témata ovlivněná etnopoetikou, tibetským buddhismem, feminismem a performancí. Pradávná orální tradice, magie a extáze se střetává s novým pojetím síly mluveného slova. Esej "Já je někdo jiný." Rozptýlené struktury vysvětlují teoretická východiska, zdroje a inspirace Anne Waldman a dokreslují její vizi světa prožívaného skrz poezii.

"A syncopated web that includes the personal within the metaphysical and the environmental, tying the individual's story to the story of the survival of the planet . . . she can also be funny, brave, and care very deeply about all our futures."-- Village Voice Literary Supplement

Features poetry and fiction written by authors representative of the Beat movement of the 1950s including classic and recent work, short biographies of the contributors, and a bibliography of Beat literature

This anthology includes many of the major poets to have emerged and gained pre-eminence since World War II, and whose writing reflects not only the significant changes in this nation’s postwar history, and the coming to grips with a nuclear age, but also an entirely new way of looking at and structuring reality. United by their “postmodernist” concerns with spontaneity, “instantism,” formal and syntactic flexibility, and the revelation of both the creator and the process through the writing itself, these 38 poets represent very diverse strains of an essential American individualism. Included are many of the poets whose work first gained widespread national attention with the 1960 publication of The New American Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Blackburn, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and others. Among the poets included here for the first time are Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Ed Sanders, Jerome Rothenberg, and James Koller. In addition to a new preface by Allen and Butterick, the book provides autobiographical notes of all the poets and listings of their major works.