Edited By: Dr. Santosh Kumar
Binding: Paperback (pp: 168)
ISBN: 81-8253-003-2 $29
Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days)
Publisher: Cyberwit.net, Allahabad, India
Pub. Date: 2004
Condition: New
Description:
New
Pegasus, the latest Global Poetry Anthology by
Cyberwit, allows the poetry lovers to relish the
most spectacular poems across the world. Few
things are more frightening than war, and dark
clouds of smoke spilling over the still horizon.
No doubt, together the poets create a better
world, and ensure Peace through their
compositions. The intensity, a genuine emotional
depth, the freshness and directness of style of
the poets included in New Pegasus. make this book
the greatest achievement of the authors. The
concept of the global village has expanded the
sensibility of several poets of New Pegasus, and
they recover their voice in the primitive Mother
Nature, like Hucklebery finding respite in a raft.
Several poets of New Pegasus are influenced by
William Carlos Williams, Pound, T. S. Eliot,
Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Roethke, Sylvia
Plath, French symbolists including Laforgue,
Corbiere, Mallarme and Valery. New Pegasus
represents quality and variety, featuring
distinctive poetic voices of authors world-wide.
Here are the very best poems by so many poets and
so many cultures, promoting Peace and Friendship
all over the world. Cyberwit's newest New Pegasus
is a Quality Book.
(Only
$16 per copy) 
All
the world's a stage,
And
all the men and women merely players:
They
have their exits and their entrances;
And
one man in his time plays many parts,
His
acts being seven ages.
PREFACE
The great depth of contemporary poetry is evident
in the poems by Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T.
S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, e. e.
cummings, Robinson Jeffers, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle),
Robert Graves, W. H. Auden, Archibald MacLeish,
Basil Bunting, Robert Lowell, Philip Larkin,
Stephen Spender, and others. This anthology New
Pegasus is a careful compilation of the
international poets with both modern and
post-modern characteristics. The modernity of some
poets selected for New Pegasus is revealed by the artist's failure in a society quite
indifferent and callous to poetry. The
disillusionment and predicament of a poet was
truly described in Pound's Hugh Selwyn
Mauberley: "His true Penelope was Flaubert.
\ He fished by obstinate isles." The artist's
private break-down and disintegration was very
aptly shown by T. S. Eliot in The Waste Land:
On Margate Sands,
I can connect
Nothing with
nothing.
The broken fingernails of dirty hands,
My people humble people who expect
Nothing.
Several poets in New Pegasus have
employed 'hard, dry image' to unravel the
'futility and anarchy' of present society.
Their images are clearly visualized, concise,
precise, and accurate in detail. Pound says, "An
image is that which presents an intellectual and
emotional complex in an instant of time." By a
deft use of such images, the poets would be able
to create poems like classic Chinese lyric and
Greek epigram. Several poets of New Pegasus have employed symbols, 'the verbal pattern to a
pattern of experience'. Blake remarked: "A
symbol is, indeed, the only possible expression of
some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a
spiritual flame." Due to the use of symbols in
many poems in New Pegasus, the authors are
able to reveal "esoteric affinities with
primordial Ideas."
The importance of symbols was very well
understood by W. B. Yeats, the chief
representative of symbolism in 20th century poetry. Yeats says: "I have no speech
but symbol, the pagan speech I made \ Amid the
dreams of youth." The influence of Rilke, Valery,
Mallarme, Rimbaud and Baudelaire is visible in
several poets of the New Pegasus. "The
purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is
to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment
when we are both asleep and awake, which is the
one moment of creation, by hushing us with an
alluring monotony, while it holds us walking by
variety, to keep us in that state of perhaps real
trance, in which the mind liberated from the
pressure of the will is unfolded in symbols" (W.
B. Yeats).
The post-modern elements, which we find in
several poets of New Pegasus, are visible
in the impact of mass media. Baudrillard says that
simulations are more important than images. "We
have now moved into an epoch where truth is
entirely a product of consensus values, and where
science itself is just the name we attach to
certain modes of explanation" (Norris, What's
Wrong with Postmodernism, 1990).
We notice 'a systematic skepticism' in many
poets of New Pegasus, who avoid
'authoritative definitions' of any event, but
they also seem to be supporting world peace,
environment and feminism. I have tried my best to
include in this anthology New Pegasus only
those poets whose poems have deep feeling,
exquisite sense of form, and a deep contemplation
of the subject originating from the inmost
recesses of thought. |
