The Postmodern Temperaments: 15 Poets

Kumar, Santosh, editor

ISBN 10: 8190136658 / ISBN 13: 9788190136655

Published by Cyberwit, Allahabad, India, 2003

About this Item

First printing. Inscribed: "To Teresa with love, from Alex, December 5, 2003. " "Alex" is Alexander Shaumyan, one of the featured poets. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Postmodern Temperaments: 15 Poets
• Publisher: Cyberwit, Allahabad, India
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8190136658
• ISBN 13: 9788190136655
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: First edition.

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Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

All the 15 poets seem to affirm the human values which the machine age threatens to destroy