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Outsider Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (58): Armand Schwerner’s...
[In the construction of an assemblage of outside & subterranean poetry the question looms of whether to include in the composition some of those who in the aftermath of their lives were celebrated...
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Hagiwara Sakutarō (1886-1942): Seven Poems Translated by Hiroaki Sato
Chair The person sleeping under the chair,is he the children of the person who made the grand house? The Reason the Person Inside Looks like a Deformed InvalidI am standing in the...
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Outside & Subterranean Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (59): Sor Juana...
Translation from Spanish & related dialects or faux-dialects by Jerome Rothenberg & Cecilia VicuñaOriginally published in the blogger version of Poems and Poetics & later in The Oxford Book...
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Kofi Awoonor: from “Poems & Abuse-Poems of the Ewe”
The sorrow & shock of the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor’s death among the nearly 100 killed in this September’s Kenya Mall bombing & massacre is still another horror to live with. Kofi was our...
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Rethinking E. E. Cummings: An Appeal for a New Reading [redux]
[Prepared for an all-day E. E. Cummings symposium at the American Literature Association meetings on June 5, 1994, while I was working with Pierre Joris on Poems for the Millennium, but never...
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Ivan Alechine: Muxa Uxi, a Poem from the Huichol Sierra, with a Note by the...
Ivan Alechine: Shadow of the Shaman Dioniso in Muxa Uxi Translation from French byWendy Parramore I am the man and the dog Nahuatlthe pine needles fallwithout thunderlike fine lightningblow the...
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15 Antiphonals: for Haroldo de Campos, as a new publication
[The antiphonals that follow have just been published – in time for my birthday (today) – as a small hand-stitched paperback by sine wave peak in Edinburgh. The poems themselves were part of a...
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Jerome Rothenberg: From EYE OF WITNESS: the Table of Contents
[In composing a gathering of my own work over the last half-century or so, I’ve tried to construct it, with the collaboration of Heriberto Yépez, as an assemblage on the model of earlier works of mine...
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Outside & Subterranean Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (60): Empedocles...
1Listen, Pausanias, son of Ankhitos the Sage: 2Our bodies are tunneled with myopic sense organs,stimuli bombard us, pain blunts the...
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Toward a Poetry & Poetics of the Americas (2): Aimé Césaire, from the...
Translation from French by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman[j.r.’s note. Earlier this year I began with Heriberto Yépez the exploration of a possible assemblage of a newly reconsidered “poetry of...
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That Dada Strain (continued): Three Dada Poems with Music (Talking Heads,...
Performance 1984 of Jerome Rothenberg’s That Dada Strain by Luke Morrison & the Center for Theater Science & Research, San Diego and New YorkWrote Dada poet Hugo Ball at the moment of...
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Jerome Rothenberg: Eleven New Books & Publications in 2013
[For the record at year's end, I will briefly insert the following list of some of my updated book publications, published this year or now awaiting publication. For me the year also marked the reissue...
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Rochelle Owens: Hermaphropoetics/Longing
Sculpture by Eugen von Bruenchenhein (1910-1983)as shown in Outsider Artexhibit at PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art, 2013In a dreamof a hermaphroditein silhouette slender and elongated a...
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Alana Siegel: From ARCHIPELAGO, “Communion (A Preludium)” and “Afterword"
[note. Soon to be published by Station Hill of Barrytown, Alana Siegel’s Archipelago adds a new presence & intelligence to a major subset of postmodern American poetry with traceable connections...
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Stanley Diamond: PRIMITIVE, The Critical Term (redux)
[In the first & heady days of ethnopoetics I was led by Gary Snyder into a close association with the anthropologist Stanley Diamond, a covert poet & a major thinker on the limits &...
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Kofi Awoonor: from “Poems & Abuse-Poems of the Ewe”
The sorrow & shock of the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor’s death among the nearly 100 killed in this September’s Kenya Mall bombing & massacre is still another horror to live with. Kofi was our...
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Thomas Meyer – From the Beowulf translation: Fit Nine
Portrait drawing of Thomas Meyer by David Hockney [note. After two years in public view (the project goes back some forty years before that), Thomas Meyer’s translation/...
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Jackson Mac Low: 27th Light Poem, for Jerry (Jerome) Rothenberg (An Essay in...
Jerome Rothenberg & Jackson Mac Low with Charlie Morrow at center I A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13...
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Toward a Poetry & Poetics of the Americas (3): 23 verses from Sousândrade’s...
Translation from Portuguese by Odile Cisneros[Along with Whitman & Darío, Sousândrade (Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, 1833-1902) emerges today as one of the great nineteenth-century forerunners to a...
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James C. Hopkins & Yoko Danno: From Scrolls, an experimental work in progress...
[authors’ note. Scrolls is a new “experimental” collaboration in progress by James C. Hopkins in Kathmanduand Yoko Danno in Kobe. One of us writes the first half of a sentence and the other follows...
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