false 93667 2 2 405082 0520049128 9780520049123 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174469507m/405082.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174469507s/405082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/405082.Technicians_of_the_Sacred_A_Range_of_Poetries_from_Africa_America_Asia_Europe_and_Oceania_Second_edition_Revised_and_Expanded 4.66 56 Technicians of the Sacred has educated a generation of poets, artists, and readers to the multiple faces and possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful work book and an unequivocal delight," and by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the last thirty-five years, it appears here in a revised and expanded version several years in the making. Rothenberg's revision follows the structure and themes of the original version while reworking the contents to include a European section and a large number of newly gathered and translated poems that reflect the work set in motion since 1968.]]> 93667 4.46 312 31 1968 823220 1878972243 9781878972248 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178696294m/823220.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178696294s/823220.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/823220.Revolution_of_the_Word_A_New_Gathering_of_American_Avant_Garde_Poetry_1914_1945 4.41 41 93667 4.46 312 31 1974 405069 0826312462 9780826312464 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174469478m/405069.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174469478s/405069.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/405069.Shaking_the_Pumpkin_Traditional_Poetry_of_the_Indian_North_Americas 4.58 26 93667 4.46 312 31 1972 1728521 0811205428 9780811205429 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187476172m/1728521.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187476172s/1728521.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1728521.Poland_1931 4.40 15 93667 4.46 312 31 1974 405090 0811214613 9780811214612 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174469560m/405090.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174469560s/405090.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/405090.Poems_for_the_Game_of_Silence_1960_1970 4.70 10 93667 4.46 312 31 2000 1674787 0520045319 9780520045316 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223624122m/1674787.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223624122s/1674787.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1674787.Symposium_Of_The_Whole_A_Range_of_Discourse_Toward_an_Ethnopoetics 4.56 9 93667 4.46 312 31 1983 1235067 0811207862 9780811207867 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182131067m/1235067.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182131067s/1235067.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1235067.Pre_Faces_and_Other_Writings 4.38 8 93667 4.46 312 31 1981 1217057 081121253X 9780811212533 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181958269m/1217057.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181958269s/1217057.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1217057.The_Lorca_Variations_I_Xxxiii 3.67 9 93667 4.46 312 31 1993 405084 0385026307 9780385026307 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/405084.Big_Jewish_Book_Poems_and_Other_Visions_of_the_Jews_from_Tribal_Times_to_the_Present 4.71 7 93667 4.46 312 31 1979 233492 0811216926 9780811216920 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172962776m/233492.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172962776s/233492.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233492.Triptych_Poland_1931_Khurbn_The_Burning_Babe 4.71 7 if only our eyes were wild enough
to see them our hearts to know their terror
—Jerome Rothenberg

For the last half of the twentieth century into the new millennium, no other American poet has been as deeply engaged in the opening of the poem (its boundaries and its possibilities) than Jerome Rothenberg. As editor, translator, essayist, performer, groundbreaking anthologist, one of the founding figures of enthnopoetics, and most significantly, as poet, Rothenberg has remapped the art against the grain of a single "great tradition."

Reminiscent of H.D.'s Trilogy, Triptych assembles three long serial poems into one multilayered sacred text. Like Kafka's Amerika, Calvino's Euphemia, and Babel's Odessa, Rothenberg's Poland in Poland/1931, first published in 1974, is a "poland stuffed with poland / brought in the imagination." Fifteen years later, Poland materializes into Khurbn (a Yiddish word meaning destruction, holocaust, human disaster), a poem summoned from the author's visit to his ancestral town, Ostrow-Mazowiecka, and the confrontation with his family's annihilation—including an uncle who killed himself—during World War II. "Allowing my uncle's khurbn to speak through me..." the author writes, "the poems are the clearest message I have ever gotten about why I write poetry." And now in 2006, The Burning Babe rises out of the furnace of khurbn, "reaching through the ruins / for a place to soar"....]]> 93667 4.46 312 31 2007