Technicians of the Sacred: Ethnopoetics and the New Indigenous Poetries (A...
Technicians of the Sacred: Ethnopoetics and the New Indigenous Poetries from Arts Unimelb on Vimeo.Coinciding with the publication of an expanded 50th anniversary edition of his anthology Technicians...
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Jess’s O! : An Unknown Masterwork (by Jack Foley)
Even is come; and from the dark park, hark. —O! What do W. C. Fields, the Mona Lisa, an upside down Tarot card, and the capitalized phrase, “GOOD NIGHT, PAPA” have in common? Not...
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Peter Valente: Fragmentary Improvisations of Yearning: küçük İskender’s souljam
[introduction. About a year ago I began discussions with Murat Nemet-Nejat on the subject of contemporary Turkish poetry. From these discussions was born a series of notes, experimental essays, and...
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Jerome Rothenberg on “The Symposium of the Whole”
[The following is a blog post I wrote for the University of California Press to celebrate the expanded fiftieth anniversary edition of Technicians of the Sacred, with an emphasis on its renewed...
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Gerry Loose: From “The Great Book of the Woods” (with a note on its sources)
the primerlet profit be gnolet bora be strength let the duality of the conjugal be terlet rfoph be veneration let piety be bropsrihph be cheerfulness let gal be a kingdom let religion be fkallet clitps...
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Peter Minter: “Everything is Speaking,” a new poem with author’s note &...
I go to sleep near the infantsbreathing bodies, a small herd of nature in layers of animation, the unknown unfolding identical powersdelivered through a gateway of heartsat body temperature. In a nest...
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In line with the publication of the expanded 50th anniversary edition of Technicians of the Sacred, as well as the revised edition of 15 Flower World Variations (1984), I’m calling the following events...
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Rochelle Owens: From “Solarpoetics” (continued) 12-15
[Writes Owens of her new masterwork: “[In the order of the letters of the alphabet I am making use in these poems of a system of mental relations which by the act of writing becomes the poem, a cosmic...
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Jerome Rothenberg: “A Book of Dreams,” a pastiche for Robert Kelly’s 82nd...
1/The way her knee swells& she feels itswelling & it turns intoa babe’s head.No one has a countenancemore rich& no one has a mouththat opens wider, lets a sound like dreaming come into...
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Anne Tardos “Beginningless,” a new poem from The Camel’s Pedestal
LifeisaraweventIgiveyouroses YougivemerosesAsIspeakandasyoulistenIfeelthetractionofmywordsinthe terrainofyourmindWespeakofthegreatemptinesswhichisultimatelyemptyofitself(Itis...
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Karl Young: Toward an Ideal Anthology, Part One
reprinted here, in memoriam[Karl Young’s relation to independent & alternative publishing began in 1966 with his first publications produced on mimeo machines and with letter presses. In 1970 he...
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Mark Weiss: A Suite of Dances III: Travelers Tales
Cows in the mire above slate water.White, dappledto the brown drop-off, sea,clouds beyond,and a burnish of sunlightbarely makes it.And here’s a bay cuts in below stubbleon a ground of snow.A town...
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Karl Young: Toward an Ideal Anthology (Reflections on the Light and Dust Web...
[Part One of Karl Young’s insightful essay on anthologies and his own work in particular appeared earlier on Poems and Poetics. The entire piece can be accessed at...
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Jerome Rothenberg AMERICA/2017The President of Desolation 1/that farcereplaces tragedyobsceneeven to think it& yet to comeinto another age& find itproven truethis is the price of growing oldthe...
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Toward a Poetry & Poetics of the Americas (6): Oswald de Andrade, “An...
Originally published in Revista de Antropofagia, n.1, year 1, May 1928, São Paulo.Translation from Portuguese by Adriano Pedrosa and Veronica Cordeiro. [editor’s note. With the present...
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Clayton Eshleman: From an Interview by Irakli Qolbaia, the first & last...
[What follows are two sections from a longer interview conducted by the Georgian poet and translator Irakli Qolbaia, in which Eshleman takes on two key words in his work – “origin” and “penetralia” –...
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Toward a Poetry of the Americas (7): Francisca Juana, “Of the Remedy Which...
[From Aztec Sorcerers in Seventeenth Century Mexico: The Treatise on Superstitions, assembled with commentaries, circa 1617, by Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón. English version edited by Michael D. Coe and...
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After Nikolai Petrovich Burnashev: from The Olonkho (a Sakha [Yakut] epic) as...
Translation by Justin E.H. Smith[translator’s note. This is a translation of some of the early lines of the Olonkho, the Sakha (Yakut) national epos (on my longstanding interest in this, read more...
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Rochelle Owens: From “Solarpoetics,” (concluded) 16-26
[The following is the conclusion of Rochelle Owens’ major new alphabetic work, earlier sections of which have appeared previously in Poems and...
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Jerome Rothenberg: A Round of Solipsisms
for my 86th birthday“He takes a book down from his shelf & scribbles across a page of text: I am the final one. This means the world will end when he does.” (from A Paradise of Poets)1/the lie of...
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