Background
Rothenberg, Jerome was born on December 11, 1931 in New York City. Son of Morris and Estelle (Lichtenstein) Rothenberg.
(A Paradise of Poets is Jerome Rothenberg's tenth book of ...)
A Paradise of Poets is Jerome Rothenberg's tenth book of poetry to be published by New Directions, beginning with his Poland/1931 (1974). In considering the title of his newest collection, he says: "Writing poetry for me has always included an involvement with the life of poetry -- & through that life an intensification, when it happened, of my involvement with the other life around me. In an earlier poem I spoke of this creating a paradise of poets.... I do not of course believe that such a paradise exists in any supernatural or mystical sense, but I have sometimes felt it come to life among my fellow poets and, even more, in writing -- in the body of the poem." In Rothenberg's hands, the body of the poem is an extraordinarily malleable object. Collage, translation, even visual improvisation serve to open up his newest book to the presence of poets and artists he has known and to others, past and present, who he feels have somehow touched him, among them Nakahara Chuya, Jackson Mac Low, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Garca Lorca, Kurt Schwitters, Vitezslav Nezval. Kenneth Rexroth once commented: "Jerome Rothenberg is one of our truly great American poets who has returned U.S. poetry to the mainstream of international modern literature.... No one has dug deeper into the roots of poetry." With A Paradise of Poets, it is clear that this evaluation is as fresh today as it was twenty-five years ago.
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(Poetry. "A BOOK OF CONCEALMENTS is a followup to an earli...)
Poetry. "A BOOK OF CONCEALMENTS is a followup to an earlier hundred-poem work, A BOOK OF WITNESS, with some notable changes in strategy and composition. In A BOOK OF WITNESS I was concentrating on the rescue of the first-person voice as our principal instrument of witness.By contrast the twenty-five poems in this first installment of A BOOK OF CONCEALMENTS suppress the witnessing "I" but draw from my accumulated works by collaging as italicized inserts small fragments of poems already written & published"-Jerome Rotherberg from Author's Not. Handstitched chapbook.
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Jerome Rothenberg is one of the major poets of his generation. His work in ethnopoetics, Native American and tribal poetics, Jewish identities, avant-garde poetry, and experimental translation is vital to contemporary poetry and literary studies. Writing Through couples Rothenberg's translations from a variety of non-English sources with his thought-provoking commentary. It also includes a selection of his poetry ("Otherings & Variations") in which the language of significant others forms the basis of original compositions. The result is a lively and unique anthology which illustrates how poetry, like translation, can be viewed as an act of "writing through" the words of others. Translated poets in Writing Through include Celan, Lorca, Nezval, Schwitters, Picasso and Gomringer. The book also includes Rothenberg's radical translations from oral poetries, "variations" derived from the vocabularies of translated poems, and a series of "gematria poems" employing a traditional form of Jewish numerology. In addition to Rothenberg's groundbreaking essay on "total translation," the book is interspersed with his helpful commentaries and notes, which illuminate a major aspect of his total poetics.
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(In the aftermath of TECHNICIANS OF THE SACRED(1968) the n...)
In the aftermath of TECHNICIANS OF THE SACRED(1968) the next step Jerome Rothenberg took toward the construction of an experimental ethnopoetics was an assemblage of traditional works and commentaries thereon focused entirely on one of the world's still surviving and incredibly diverse deep cultures. The resultant work, shaking the pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas, is the Mount Rushmore not only of literary archeology but also for understanding the forms, conditions and promise of being American, which Walt Whitman, among others, holds is being a poet.
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(Poetry. This collection is comprised of poems by well-kno...)
Poetry. This collection is comprised of poems by well-known poet andanthologist, Jerome Rothenberg, written in relation to Francisco Goya'sfamous series of prints. Orginally published in Spain in 1799, Goya'sLos Caprichos addressed the grotesque social and religious evils of thattumultuous period. Rothenberg, in turn, addresses the grotesqueries ofour own time in these imaginative, enigmatic works.
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(When Thoreau wrote in his Journal in 1841, Good poetry se...)
When Thoreau wrote in his Journal in 1841, Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets, and when Whitman describes Leaves of Grass as a language experiment, they are expressing an approach to poetry that never ceased and has grown continuously during recent decades. This ground-breaking anthology of the early 1970s takes such an approach in presenting the poetry of the North American continent. It includes many recognized poets of the period, though appearing here in often unexpected contexts, and others who have been overlooked but whose contributions to the development of poetry are revolutionary. Starting from their own moment, the editors have read back into the more distant past and selected from broad American traditions works that had thitherto been considered outside the realm of poetry proper: the native poetry of the American continent, African-American sermons, blues and gospels, and the sacred, often innovative poetry of such radical religious groups as the Shakers. The book takes its title from William Blake's poem presenting the American Revolution as not only a powerful, promising and problematic historical event but the birth of a new development in man's consciousness-one that finds complex expression in the poetry of a continent. Selections mostly appear non-chronologically in juxtapositions suggesting what T. S. Eliot called the simultaneous order of all poetries of all times.
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( Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 brings together in one vo...)
Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 brings together in one volume a wide-ranging selection of essays and commentaries by one of the most significant poets, critics, and translators working with American and international poetry today. Jerome Rothenberg’s work spans a period of over forty years and nearly one hundred books, and though perhaps best known as a poet, his critical and theoretical contributions to the fields of innovative, experimental poetry have become equally important facets of his work. Rothenberg’s earliest critical writings concerned themselves with ethnopoetics and the poetics of performance. In the last twenty years his critical thinking has evolved to encompass more explicitly issues of modernism, postmodernism, and the avant-garde, as well as meditations on the nature of the book and writing. This volume extends and elaborates all of those interests, allowing for the first time a comprehensive glimpse of the full trajectory of his thinking. In the first section, “Poetics and Polemics,” Rothenberg’s essays address a range of issues with which he’s become closely associated, among them the anthology as a critical and polemical tool; the intersection of poetry with art, performance, and politics, in both contemporary and traditional practice; the poetics of Jewish mysticism as a traditional form of conceptual and language poetry; and the universality of poetic discourse, particularly as seen in tribal poetry or in poetic traditions long separated from the Western literary mainstream. In “A Gallery of Poets” is Rothenberg’s lively explorations of the work of other poets, as they relate to his own work, to avant-garde poetry in general, and to the poetic traditions that concern him the most. Finally, in “Dialogues and Interviews” are Rothenberg’s unbridled meditations and musings on what he calls “the life of poetry” outside the bounds of book and binding, class and category, a dynamic force at the center of all that we call human.
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(Combining two works written over the same time period Con...)
Combining two works written over the same time period Concealments and Caprichos is a two-pronged follow up to Rothenberg's earlier book of poems, A Book of Witness. As Rothenberg states in his preface, the title is based on a Jewish mystical work, Sifra diSeni'uta from which he drew the lines that open this title. Those lines appear sporadically throughout Concealments, not as the mapping of a nonexistent god, but as an intimation, in both Concealments and Caprichos, of an imagined world embedded in the real one.
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( In his 1978 classic, A Seneca Journal, Jerome Rothenber...)
In his 1978 classic, A Seneca Journal, Jerome Rothenberg continued the journey of his earlier Poland/1931, but under vastly altered circumstances. Those circumstances, no less real for their repositioning in time and space, involved a profound response to two years in Salamanca, a railroad town on the Allegany Seneca Reservation in western New York State. Going there as a poet in an ongoing search for the human and particular, Rothenberg in A Seneca Journal remains always aware “of who I am, while being drawn toward and affected by a place as never before.” To the original edition of A Seneca Journal, this Nine Point reissue now adds a final section by Rothenberg and Seneca singer Richard Johnny John of translations from the Senecas’ Society of the Mystic Animals, a riveting example of what Rothenberg later came to call “total translation.”
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The key book by the internationally celebrated poet with the only "Polish ghetto-Hassidic-cowboy and Indian American comic voice" (Robert Duncan) in history. if only our eyes were wild enough to see them our hearts to know their terror —Jerome Rothenberg For the last half of the twentieth century into the new millennium, no other American poet has been as deeply engaged in the opening of the poem (its boundaries and its possibilities) than Jerome Rothenberg. As editor, translator, essayist, performer, groundbreaking anthologist, one of the founding figures of enthnopoetics, and most significantly, as poet, Rothenberg has remapped the art against the grain of a single "great tradition." Reminiscent of H.D.'s Trilogy, Triptych assembles three long serial poems into one multilayered sacred text. Like Kafka's Amerika, Calvino's Euphemia, and Babel's Odessa, Rothenberg's Poland in Poland/1931, first published in 1974, is a "poland stuffed with poland / brought in the imagination." Fifteen years later, Poland materializes into Khurbn (a Yiddish word meaning destruction, holocaust, human disaster), a poem summoned from the author's visit to his ancestral town, Ostrow-Mazowiecka, and the confrontation with his family's annihilation—including an uncle who killed himself—during World War II. "Allowing my uncle's khurbn to speak through me..." the author writes, "the poems are the clearest message I have ever gotten about why I write poetry." And now in 2006, The Burning Babe rises out of the furnace of khurbn, "reaching through the ruins / for a place to soar"....
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(A collection of poetry which contains the title poem, a c...)
A collection of poetry which contains the title poem, a celebration of poets and friends, and four other sections--Improvisations, Twentieth Century Unlimited, An Oracle for Delfi, and 14 Stations.
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Contents: Armand Schwerner: Tablet XVII; Louis Zukofsky: The Iyyob Translation from "A-15;" Charles Olson: "Transpositions;" Charles Doria &: Harris Lenowitz: From "When": Some Greek &: Near Eastern Tellings of Creation (introduction & mini-anthology); Ezra Pound: Religio, or a Child's Guide to Knowledge; Milton Kessler & Gerald E. Kadish: Love Songs & Tomb Songs of Ancient Egypt; Greek: To Dionysus (tr. George Economou); Roman: Song of the Arval Brothers (tr. Charles Doria); "Acts of Saint John": The Round Dance of Jesus (tr. Jerome Rothenberg); Swedish: Magic Formulas -Riddles -Imitation Rhymes (gathered by Bengt af Klintberg, tr. Siv Cedering Fox); Serbo Croatian: Magic Formulas Against Bad Luck (tr. Charles Simic); Yiddish: The Evil Eye (the Good Eye) Einehore (tr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett &: Harris Lenowitz); Celtic: From The Voyage of Maelduin;" Edward Jones: The Bardic Museum, of Primitive British Literature; Harry Crosby: Poems &: Prose -Poems for the Sun; Ezra Pound: Note to Harry Crosby's "Torchbearer" (1931); Charles Olson: Project (1951): "The Art of the Language of Mayan Glyphs;" Paulino Yama & Allan F. Burns: The Story of the Hunchbacks (Maya); Tztotzil: The Flood (Tr. W.S. Merwin); Bahaman: The Singing Pepper Tree (Daniel J. Crowley, from Luzilla Jones); Michael Corr: The Craft; Howard Norman / Jacob Slowstream: Poems from the Wishing Bone ·Cycle (Ojibwa); Dennis Tedlock: The Story of How a Story Was Made (Zuni); Jerome Rothenberg: Seneca Journal 5 (The Speech of Animals); Notes & Comments; Upper Paleolithic: The Calendar (after Alexander Marshack). Viking: Animal head from the Osberg Burial is on the front cover, and Old Norse: Saga &: Runes from the Ramsund Stone is on the back cover. The record insert includes on Side 1, MP3, 12 MB: Andrew Peynetsa, "Once Long Ago," a performance in the Zuni language, recorded June 17, 1972, and on Side 2, MP3, 10.4 MB: Armand Schwerner, Tablets XVII and XII, from "The Tablets" (1971, 1973)
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Alcheringa / Ethnopoetics: A First International Symposium - New Series, Volume 2, Number 2 144 pp. A collection of talks and essays on the aesthetic and political issues of ethnopoetics. Includes: Foreword by Michel Benamou; Pre-Face to a Symposium on Ethnopoetics by Jerome Rothenberg; The Politics of Ethnopoetics by Gary Snyder; The Heraldic Vision: Some Cognitive Models for Ethnopoetics by Nathaniel Tarn; Towards a Poetics of Performance by Richard Schechner; The Age of the Open Secret by George Quasha; Ethno or Socio Poetics by Sylvia Wynter; Free and Forced Poetics by Edouard Glissant; The Stolen Word by Jacques Howlett; Collective Art in the Age of Cultural Imperialism by Fredric Jameson; Talking to Discover by David Antin; Toward a Restoration of the Word in the Modern World by Dennis Tedlock; Postface: In Praise of Marginality by Michel Benamou; Notes on Contributors.Keywords: POETRY POEMS POETIC VERSE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
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(Poetry. GEMATRIA COMPLETE brings together all of Jerome R...)
Poetry. GEMATRIA COMPLETE brings together all of Jerome Rothenberg's poems composed by quasi-aleatory numerical methods, from first experiments in his earlier book, Gematria (Sun & Moon Press, 1994), through 14 Stations, a terminal series derived from the Hebrew/Yiddish spellings of the names of fourteen World War Two extermination camps.
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Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more. Beginning with a reassertion of the complexity of poetry among peoples long labeled “primitive” and “savage,” many recent poets have sought to base a new poetics over the fullest range of human cultures. The attempt to define an ethnopoetics has been significantly connected with the most experimental and future-directed side of Romantic and modern poetry, both in the Western world and, increasingly, outside it. As a visionary poetics and as a politics, this complex redefinition of cultural and intellectual values has involved a rarely acknowledged collaboration between poets and scholars, who together have challenged the narrow view of literature that has excluded so many traditions. In this gathering, the Rothenbergs follow the idea of an ethnopoetics from predecessors such as Vico, Blake, Thoreau, and Tzara to more recent essays and manifestos by poets and social thinkers such as Olson, Eliade, Snyder, Turner, and Baraka. The themes range widely, from the divergence of oral and written cultures to the shaman as proto-poet and the reemergence of suppressed and rejected forms and images: the goddess, the trickster, and the “human universe.” The book’s three ethnographic sections demonstrate how various poetries are structured and composed, how they reflect meaning and worldview, and how they are performed in cultures where all art may be thought of as art-in-motion. Among the poetries discussed are the language of magic; West African drum language and poetry; the Huichol Indian language of reversals; chance operations in African divination poetry; picture-writings and action-writings from Australia and Africa; and American Indian sacred-clown dramas and traditional trickster narratives. The cumulative effect is a new reading of the poetic past and present—in the editors’ words, “a changed paradigm of what poetry was or now could come to be.”
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First published in 1971, this volume brings together a selection of Rothenberg's early groundbreaking work: a wide range of experimental forms, both written and oral, set beside renderings of Native American, Australian, and other primitive songs, as well as the ancestral poems exploring his own origins that look forward to his later poetry.
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author visual arts and literary educator
Rothenberg, Jerome was born on December 11, 1931 in New York City. Son of Morris and Estelle (Lichtenstein) Rothenberg.
Bachelor, City College of New York, 1952. Master of Arts, University Michigan, 1953. Doctor of Letters (honorary), State University of New York, Oneonta, 1997.
With Mannes College Music, New York City, 1961—1970. Visiting professor University California, San Diego, 1971, 77-84, University Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1974-1975, San Diego State University, 1976-1977, University California, Riverside, 1980, University Oklahoma, Norman, 1984. Visiting Aerol Arnold professor English University Southern California, 1983.
Visiting writer in residence State University of New York, Albany, 1986, professor English State University of New York, Binghamton, 1986-1988. Professor visual arts and literature University California, San Diego, since 1989, chairman visual arts, 1990-1993. Head, creative writing, 1994-1995.
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Served with Army of the United States, 1953-1955. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, New Wilderness Foundation, World Poetry Academy.
Married Diane Brodatz, December 25, 1952. 1 son, Matthew.