A Poetry Reading by Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally celebrated poet, translator, anthologist, and performer with over ninety books of poetry and twelve assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, (traditional American Indian poetry), Exiled in the Word (a.k.a. A Big Jewish Book), and, with Pierre Joris and Jeffrey Robinson, Poems for the Millennium, volumes 1-3. Recent books of poetry include A Field on Mars (in English and French), The President of Desolation, The Mystery of False Attachments, A Book of Infernos, and Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader; and he is currently assembling a transnational anthology of North and South American poetry “from origins to present,” scheduled for publication by the University of California Press. His own selected poetry has appeared in French, Spanish, Swedish, German and Flemish editions, and he has been translated extensively into Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Serbian, Chinese, Polish, Lithuanian, Georgian, Russian, Japanese, Finnish. and Persian. His most recent book of poems, In the Shadow of a Mad King, will be published in fall 2022 by Granary Books in New York