Elsewhere

March 18, 2014poetry anthology | pb | 97 pgs5.5" x 8.5" 978-1-934824-85-6 This book is published as part of the Poets in the World series created by The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. Ilya Kaminsky, Series Editor. “In a century of mass migration and deportation, political exile and casual tourism, being elsewhere was the common condition. For the moderns, elsewhere was not merely physical location or dislocation, but was intrinsic to the work. Victor Segalen, in China at the beginning of the century, writes of the ‘manifestation of Diversity,’ a ‘spectacle of Difference’: everything that is ‘foreign, strange, unexpected, surprising, mysterious, amorous, superhuman, heroic, and even divine, everything that is Other.’ Picasso put it more bluntly: ‘Strangeness is what we wanted to make people think about because we were quite aware that our world was becoming very strange.’ After Guillaume Apollinaire’s ‘Zone’—perhaps the most influential poem of the century—collage,