Today: Jerome Rothenberg and others will talk about romantic & postromantic poetry at 5 PM. Join us! Click on the calendar entry for this program and find out more. Come at 5 PM and stay for the reception at 6:30 (good eats) and then stay for the 7 PM poetry reading. Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet with over eighty books of poetry and several assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred (1968, Doubleday), Shaking the Pumpkin (1972, Doubleday), Revolution of the Word (1974, Seabury-Continuum Books), and Poems for the Millennium Volumes 1 and 2 with Pierre Joris (1995 and 1998, University of California Press). A Book of Witness, his twelfth book of poems from New Directions, appeared in 2002 (New Directions), and a thirteenth book, Triptych, appeared in 2007 (New Directions). A first translation into French of Technicians of the Sacred was published by Jose Corti in Paris in 2008, and a nineteenth-century prequel to Poems for the Millennium, co-edited with Jeffrey Robinson, appeared in early 2009. His second collection of literary essays, Poetics & Polemics 1980-2005, appeared at the end of 2008, and new books of poems scheduled for 2009 and 2010 include Gematria Complete, Concealments & Caprichos, and Retrievals: Uncollected & New Poems 1955-2010.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Jerome Rothenberg today
Today: Jerome Rothenberg and others will talk about romantic & postromantic poetry at 5 PM. Join us! Click on the calendar entry for this program and find out more. Come at 5 PM and stay for the reception at 6:30 (good eats) and then stay for the 7 PM poetry reading. Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet with over eighty books of poetry and several assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred (1968, Doubleday), Shaking the Pumpkin (1972, Doubleday), Revolution of the Word (1974, Seabury-Continuum Books), and Poems for the Millennium Volumes 1 and 2 with Pierre Joris (1995 and 1998, University of California Press). A Book of Witness, his twelfth book of poems from New Directions, appeared in 2002 (New Directions), and a thirteenth book, Triptych, appeared in 2007 (New Directions). A first translation into French of Technicians of the Sacred was published by Jose Corti in Paris in 2008, and a nineteenth-century prequel to Poems for the Millennium, co-edited with Jeffrey Robinson, appeared in early 2009. His second collection of literary essays, Poetics & Polemics 1980-2005, appeared at the end of 2008, and new books of poems scheduled for 2009 and 2010 include Gematria Complete, Concealments & Caprichos, and Retrievals: Uncollected & New Poems 1955-2010.
