Review:
"A collection of sundry prose writings by a significant poet of the postwar generation, as selected by the poet, this volume is a valuable contribution to the literature. Poets' reputations, especially in a crowded contemporary field, often depend on their associations with movements that come to be seen as significant. It is too early to guess whether Rothenberg's gestures of self-definition will provide critics and readers with an argument for his importance. At this stage, 'deep image' poetry (with its Jungian assumptions) and 'ethnopoetics' (which seeks to find the poetic styles appropriate for a given geographical and cultural location) may seem out of key with intellectual fashion. Rothenberg is apparently aware of this, but his philosophical convictions remain strong. Possibly best known at this point for his work on anthologies, Rothenberg includes the preface to his enormous, multivolume Poems for the Millennium, which he coedited with Pierre Joris (1995-2009), and a large selection of commentaries on contemporaries (and some classic figures like Picasso). The diversity of the volume serves to underscore the clarity of Rothenberg's vision, amounting to a useful portrait of an admirable postmodern poet. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."
--CHOICE
"The significance of Jerome Rothenberg's animating spirit looms larger every year. . . . [He] is the ultimate 'hyphenated' poet: critic-anthropologist-editor-anthologist-performer-teacher-translator, to each of which he brings an unbridled exuberance and an innovator's insistence on transforming a given state of affairs."--Charles Bernstein
About the Author:
Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over eighty books of poetry and translation including Poems for the Game of Silence, Poland/1931, A Seneca Journal, Vienna Blood, That Dada Strain, New Selected Poems 1970-1985, Khurbn, and most recently, A Paradise of Poets, A Book of Witness, and Triptych. Of his nine major 'anthology-manifestos,' the best known are Technicians of the Sacred and Poems for the Millennium. An earlier book of essays, Pre-Faces, appeared in 1985 and is still in print.
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