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I imagine that people devoid of any joy for poetry curse the poets. The truth is that there is something infinitely beautiful in the spontaneous outburst of inspiration, which breaks out as the poet is composing. Besides, the poems from different countries serve as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a world among worlds (Clifford Geertz). This clash of civilizations (Samuel... More

I imagine that people devoid of any joy for poetry curse the poets. The truth is that there is something infinitely beautiful in the spontaneous outburst of inspiration, which breaks out as the poet is composing. Besides, the poems from different countries serve as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a world among worlds (Clifford Geertz). This clash of civilizations (Samuel Huntington) is undoubtedly a creative one. The kind of imagination in some poets of The Still Horizon reminds us of Stevens, Williams, Wilbur, Miss Bishop, Lowell and Berryman. The large number of poems received from US makes it evident that America s post-modern poetry is all set to storm the world. Unlike Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost, these poets seem to have dipped their spoon in every dish and thus found an identity as the 'voice of America singing . The first fifty years of the 21st century may well be described as the American Movement in Poetry, a significant part of renascence of world poetry. The writers of the new millennium included in the Anthology reveal a blend of different regions and variety of styles. Their poems represent ethos of their native lands. I hope the readers will be deeply stirred by the subject matter and strength of The Still Horizon. I trust that the new century would recognise the presence of genius and inspiration in European poets of the anthology. Some of the poets reveal disruption from within (Charles Jencks), the predominant part of Postmodernism which has invaded everything (Patricia Waugh). Many of these poets will be remembered by posterity like Sandburg, Whitman, Millay, Eliot, Frost, Dickinson and Pound in US, Pushkin in Russia or Mickiewicz in Poland. They are native, athletic, continental, greater than before known. We find in these poems the beauty of vital and natural affirmations of human nature. There is a vivid presence of hunger for eternity in many poems. In fact, a true poet pines for better bread than can be made with wheat . H.L. Silverman s Polarity reveals a remarkable sublimity and profound idea That without justice, There can be no peace; That without peace, There can be no future. Polarity is a poem akin to prayer, full of sacred incantation. Norma Woodbridge s Homeless was written on behalf of peace. The poem condemns the gigantic brutality of war. The charm of the poem lies in the poet s good sense and gentle pacifism: Gentle conversations up in smoke, And we are not home. Bill Sherman s Homage To Wilfred Owen reminds us of the Soldier Poets of England (1914-18) like Owen and Siegfried Sassoon: Alone and feeling that the best of life is gone. He noticed how the women s eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole. Sherman is the poet for those who desire the stark reality, in harsh and bitter words, unsoftened by any kind of patriotic euphemisms. The European poets seem to seek their own bliss by challenging authority, discarding conformity and shying away from forcing their values on others. They listen to their own conscience, celebrate and defend their freedom. They refuse to accept as guilt the fact of their own existence. The women poets in The Still Horizon remind us at times of Emily Dickinson (1830-86) whose awkwardness is metaphor of life itself. One can never forget her power of capturing telegraphic thought as revealed in the images the seldom of the mind , overtakelessness , vitalless , Funeral in my brain . She mastered life s intricacies by rejecting it (Allen Tate). The women writers write with a rich intensity of emotion that is inaccessible to man. Rare

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