Jerome Rothenberg, who passed away on April 21, was a giant in the poetry community and a longtime author, anthologist, and translator for University of California Press. His life’s work affirmed poetry’s …
Read More >Happy World Poetry Day! To celebrate, we share a selection of poetry from Jerome Rothenberg’s landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. …
Read More >Jerome Rothenberg changed the course of poetics with the opening statement to his landmark anthology, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries From Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania: “Primitive means complex.” …
Read More >Fifty years ago, when I was assembling and then publishing the first edition of Technicians of the Sacred, my concentration was on the poetry foremost, the sense that came to me as …
Read More >Rooting poetry beyond location and historical time, Jerome Rothenberg’s seminal compilation Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired poets, artists, musicians, and other readers—from Allen Ginsberg to Nick Cave—for generations, exposing them to the …
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