The Life Writing of Otherness Book

Rothenberg is the supreme editor for experimental literature, and this collection ranges across the period between the end of WWI and the end of WWII with an engaging and sometimes explosive collection of poems. He includes some well-known modern poets, like cummings, Moore, Sandberg, Crane, etc. cheek by jowl with people the reader might not think of "poets" - like Marcel Duchamp or Marsden Hartley. I love the sequence from Harry Crosby, perhaps the ultimate poet maudit, as the French put it, who committed suicide after spending the last two years of his life producing obsessive, fascinating work.