A Paradise of Poets: Poetry - Softcover

Rothenberg, Jerome

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9780811214278: A Paradise of Poets: Poetry

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ISBN 10: 0811214273 ISBN 13: 9780811214278

Publisher: New Directions, 1999

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A Paradise of Poets is Jerome Rothenberg's tenth book of poetry to be published by New Directions, beginning with his Poland/1931 (1974). In considering the title of his newest collection, he says: "Writing poetry for me has always included an involvement with the life of poetry -- & through that life an intensification, when it happened, of my involvement with the other life around me. In an earlier poem I spoke of this creating a paradise of poets.... I do not of course believe that such a paradise exists in any supernatural or mystical sense, but I have sometimes felt it come to life among my fellow poets and, even more, in writing -- in the body of the poem".

In Rothenberg's hands, the body of the poem is an extraordinarily malleable object. Collage, translation, even visual improvisation serve to open up his newest book to the presence of poets and artists he has known and to others, past and present, who he feels have somehow touched him, among them Nakahara Chuya, Jackson Mac Low, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Garcia Lorca, Kurt Schwitters, Vitezslav Nezval. Kenneth Rexroth once commented: "Jerome Rothenberg is one of our truly great American poets who has returned U.S. poetry to the mainstream of international modern literature.... No one has dug deeper into the roots of poetry". With A Paradise of Poets, it is clear that this evaluation is as fresh today as it was twenty-five years ago.

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"Rothenberg maps a visionary tradition at once diverse and humanly coherent" -- Michael Palmer

At The Poorhouse
Below
The Great Sadness
Memory
One
Prelude
Sketches
A Star
Swath
Ursa Major
Venus
The Whole Works
At The Grave Of Nakahara Chuya (1907-1937): 1
At The Grave Of Nakahara Chuya (1907-1937): 2. After Nakahara Chuya
At The Grave Of Nakahara Chuya (1907-1937): 3. At The Graveside
At Tsukiji Market Tokyo: 1
At Tsukiji Market Tokyo: 2. The Tale
At Tsukiji Market Tokyo: 3. For Makoto Oda
At Tsukiji Market Tokyo: [hojoki - Chomei At Toyama]
Autobiography 1997: The First One Hundred
Autobiography 1998: The Second One Hundred
Autobiography 3: Picasso's Hundred
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 12.i.57
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 14.viii.57
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 16.i.58
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 17.i.58
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 19.vi.58
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 2.xii.57
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 20.viii.59
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 21.vii.58
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 27.i.57
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 5.viii.58
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 6.i.57. Cannes
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 8.vi.58
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 8.viii.58
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: 9.viii.58
The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz After Pablo Picasso: Third Segment
Diabolo: A Poem Of The Night After Vitezslav Nezval
First Night Poem, For Jackson Mac Low: 1.
First Night Poem, For Jackson Mac Low: 2. Night Walk Variations
First Night Poem, For Jackson Mac Low: 3.
Five Kuwitter Poems After Kurt Schwitters: Autumn
Five Kuwitter Poems After Kurt Schwitters: The Meadow
Five Kuwitter Poems After Kurt Schwitters:roses Abloom Like Daisy ..
In The Shadow Of The 1000 Buddhas: Terror
The Leonard Project: 10 + 2
New Improvisations: 1
New Improvisations: 2
New Improvisations: 3
New Improvisations: 4
New Improvisations: 5
New Improvisations: 6
New Improvisations: 7
New Improvisations: 8
New Improvisations: 9
A Poem For The Cruel Majority
Three Paris Elegies*: 1
Three Paris Elegies*: 2
Three Paris Elegies*: 3
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997 (i): 1
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997 (i): 3
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997 (i): 4
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997 (i): 6
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997 (ii): 1
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997(i): 2
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997(i): 5
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997(i): 7
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997(ii): 2
The Treasures Of Dunhuang: 2000 Buddhas
A Walkaround, For Neko; Kamakura 11/10/96
Desire
From The Back & From The Front To Start
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

Jerome Rothenberg is a DNA spaceman exploring the mammal caves of Now. -- Michael McClure

[A] transformational and personal journey of artistic risk and vitality of language. -- World Literature Today, Rochelle Owens, Summer 2000

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