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Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 The American Model : Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Hale and Iremonger , 1982 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Beware of Broken Glass: Models in a Room of Mirrors, Thomas Shapcott , single work prose (p. 28-41)
The Quaker Graveyard in Carlton, Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work prose (p. 42-53)
The American Model: Penelope or Circe?, Andrew Taylor , single work prose (p. 54-68)
Democratic Repression: The Ethnic Strain, Fay Zwicky , single work criticism (p. 84-98)
Anaesthetics : Some Notes on the New Australian Poetry, John Tranter , single work criticism (p. 99-116)
Poetry and Living: An Evaluation of the American Poetic Tradition, Robert Gray , single work prose (p. 117-136)
Ease of American Language, Vincent Buckley , single work prose (p. 137-159)
Public Voices and Private Feeling, Bruce Dawe , single work criticism (p. 160-172)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Essential Gossip : Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan and U.S.-Australian Poetics Brendan Casey , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 108 2023;

'In 1985, when the bulky anthology Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania (first published in 1968) was printed in a new edition, it was advertised with the curious dust jacket recommendation: ‘hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the last thirty-five years’. The volume’s inclusion on this list is remarkable, for, as an anthology of world poetry, it is not in any simple or traditional sense an ‘American book.’ Its opening sequence, titled ‘Origins and Namings,’ includes selections drawn from Central Australian Arrernte song cycles, passages of the Chinese I Ching and text from a shrine to Tutankhamun, all carefully organised to mirror the narrative and themes of the Biblical genesis myth (5-45). But for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the anthology’s status as an ‘American book’ rests on the credentials of collection’s poet-editor, Jerome Rothenberg, who not only selected and arranged these foreign texts, but appended each with his own copious annotations and explanatory notes. Indeed, as Rothenberg contends in a Foreword to the collection, it is from his position as an anthologist that he rescues various religious or anthropological works, claiming them for genre of poetry. His insight, as one reviewer puts it, was twofold: that ‘poetry could be drawn from ritualistic experiences, chants, incantations, and shamanic visions that originated in Africa, Asia, Oceania, or within Native American groups’ and that ‘cutting-edge (American) avant-garde poetic advances (find) unexpected resonances in these ancient texts’ (Marmer). John Vernon concurs, describing Rothenberg’s anthology as having ‘all the earmarks (…) of a search for land, that is, a search for America, for an American tradition’ (825). For Rothenberg, contemporary American poetry must act as a creative archaeology of geography and origins: U.S. poets, he suggested, were not only reckoning with their present or future, but also re-staging their relation to the history of world poetry.'  (Introduction)

Smooth and Troubled Passages Across the Pacific Kevin Hart , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 119-148)
'How do American poets see Australia in their poems? How do Australian poets see America in their poems? These two questions are answered in part by attention to several poets on either side of the Pacific. In America: Karl Shapiro, Herbert Morris, John Ashbery, John Koethe, August Kleinzahler. And in Australia: Les Murray, John Forbes, John Tranter, Robert Adamson and Robert Gray.' (Authors's abstract)
Untitled Mike Doyle , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Ariel , April vol. 15 no. 2 1984; (p. 120-123)

— Review of The American Model : Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry 1982 anthology criticism prose
Untitled Ken L. Goodwin , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: World Literature Written in English , Autumn vol. 22 no. 2 1983; (p. 232-234)

— Review of The American Model : Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry 1982 anthology criticism prose
The Learning Experience as Ethics Laurie Clancy , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 53 1983; (p. 29)

— Review of The American Model : Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry 1982 anthology criticism prose
Untitled Martin Duwell , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 10 no. 4 1982; (p. 544-547)

— Review of Cross Currents : Magazines and Newspapers in Australian Literature 1981 anthology criticism biography autobiography ; The American Model : Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry 1982 anthology criticism prose
American Graffiti, or 'I'm Living in the Seventies' D. Anderson , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 41 no. 4 1982; (p. 479-485)

— Review of A Possible Contemporary Poetry : Interviews with Thirteen Poets from the New Australian Poetry 1982 selected work interview ; The American Model : Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry 1982 anthology criticism prose
No Cure for the Common Cold in Bad Literature Maurice Dunlevy , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 April 1982; (p. 14)

— Review of The American Model : Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry 1982 anthology criticism prose ; Early Australian Poetry : An Annotated Bibliography of Original Poems Published in Australian Newspapers, Magazines and Almanacks Before 1850 1982 single work bibliography
Tracing the American Connection David Carter , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 June 1982; (p. 15)

— Review of The American Model : Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry 1982 anthology criticism prose
US Influence Came Sooner Than Our Poets Think Douglas Stewart , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 May 1982; (p. 44)

— Review of The American Model : Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry 1982 anthology criticism prose
Smooth and Troubled Passages Across the Pacific Kevin Hart , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 119-148)
'How do American poets see Australia in their poems? How do Australian poets see America in their poems? These two questions are answered in part by attention to several poets on either side of the Pacific. In America: Karl Shapiro, Herbert Morris, John Ashbery, John Koethe, August Kleinzahler. And in Australia: Les Murray, John Forbes, John Tranter, Robert Adamson and Robert Gray.' (Authors's abstract)
The Australian Model? : American Writing and Australian Poetry Bruce A. Clunies Ross , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , August no. 92 1983; (p. 46-54)
Essential Gossip : Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan and U.S.-Australian Poetics Brendan Casey , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 108 2023;

'In 1985, when the bulky anthology Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania (first published in 1968) was printed in a new edition, it was advertised with the curious dust jacket recommendation: ‘hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the last thirty-five years’. The volume’s inclusion on this list is remarkable, for, as an anthology of world poetry, it is not in any simple or traditional sense an ‘American book.’ Its opening sequence, titled ‘Origins and Namings,’ includes selections drawn from Central Australian Arrernte song cycles, passages of the Chinese I Ching and text from a shrine to Tutankhamun, all carefully organised to mirror the narrative and themes of the Biblical genesis myth (5-45). But for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the anthology’s status as an ‘American book’ rests on the credentials of collection’s poet-editor, Jerome Rothenberg, who not only selected and arranged these foreign texts, but appended each with his own copious annotations and explanatory notes. Indeed, as Rothenberg contends in a Foreword to the collection, it is from his position as an anthologist that he rescues various religious or anthropological works, claiming them for genre of poetry. His insight, as one reviewer puts it, was twofold: that ‘poetry could be drawn from ritualistic experiences, chants, incantations, and shamanic visions that originated in Africa, Asia, Oceania, or within Native American groups’ and that ‘cutting-edge (American) avant-garde poetic advances (find) unexpected resonances in these ancient texts’ (Marmer). John Vernon concurs, describing Rothenberg’s anthology as having ‘all the earmarks (…) of a search for land, that is, a search for America, for an American tradition’ (825). For Rothenberg, contemporary American poetry must act as a creative archaeology of geography and origins: U.S. poets, he suggested, were not only reckoning with their present or future, but also re-staging their relation to the history of world poetry.'  (Introduction)

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