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A Poem by Jerome Rothenberg @ Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks
Jerome Rothenberg (born 1931) is an American poet and movies
editor who is noted for
his work in ethnopoetics.
Early life and work
Jerome Rothenberg was born in New York City to Orthodox Polish-Jewish
immigrants[1]and is a descendant of the Talmudist Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg [2].
He attended the City College of New York, graduating in 1952. In 1953, he got a
Master's Degree in Literature from the University of Michigan. Rothenberg served
in the U.S. Army in Mainz, Germany from 1953 to 1955, after which he did further
graduate study at Columbia University, finishing in 1959.
In the late 1950s, he published translations of German poets, including the
first English appearances of poems by Paul Celan and Günter Grass. He also
founded Hawk's Well Press and the magazine Poems from the Floating World,
publishing big tits
work by a number of the most important American avant-garde poets of
the day and his own first book, White Sun Black Sun 1960. He published eight
more collections during the 1960s.
Ethnopoetics
Rothenberg's interest in tribal poetry large
resulted in an anthology of poetry from
Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania called Technicians of the Sacred
(1968). This anthology went beyond the standard collection of folk songs to
include visual and sound poetry and boobs
the texts and scenarios for ritual events.
He co-edited Alcheringa, the first ever magazine of ethnopoetics and edited
further anthologies, including Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the
Indian North Americas (1972), a number of collections of Jewish poetry and
Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward An Ethnopoetics, co-edited
with Diane Rothenberg.
Recent work
Rothenberg was the theorist of the deep image group of poets. He has continued
to be a prolific poet, publishing boobs
around another fifty books since 1971. These
include New Selected Poems 1970-1985 (1986), Poems for the Game of Silence
(2000) and Collaborations: Livres d’artiste 1968-2003 (2003). He has translated
widely from German and Spanish poets. He is co-editor, with Pierre Joris, of
Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern &
Postmodern Poetry (Volume One 1995, Volume Two 1998). He has also edited a
number of other anthologies and published a number of plays and essays.
A special issue of Samizdat (poetry magazine) commemorates Rothenberg's
collaborations with Pierre Joris.