Jerome Rothenberg

Poems and poetics

Jerome Rothenberg

CODA TO A BOOK OF DREAMS

For Robert Kelly

 

[From The Stars in Mindless Space: A Deeper Image. Later & Uncollected Poems. In Progress.]

 

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

 

No world more clear

than what we see

Mark Weiss

Forty-nine New Hampshire sketches, with author's note

A BRIEF AUTHOR’S NOTE, AND MORE. I’ve been increasingly writing in extended form composed of distinct units of various lengths, structure indicated distantly but left to the reader to construct. Put another way, it’s my trees, now find the forest. Or find your own. This sequence, written at the MacDowell Colony in the autumn of 1975, seems to me now to be an early move in that direction. For a final fruition, see my A Suite of Dances, Shearsman Books, 2021.

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With my famous knife I scrape the rough spots on the underside of a fungus and find tiny white grubs.

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Sean McCann and Charlie Morrow (eds.)

'The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival' (1980) 4x cassette and book

After years of preparation, Recital is proud to present The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival box set. Held in New York in 1980, this was the last festival of the pioneering sound poetry series started in Stockholm in the 1960s. This ambitious document holds nearly five hours of audio from thirty artists. A 240-page book with biographies, texts, and artwork from each artist supplements the edition, including program notes by Charlie Morrow and Sean McCann.

Leonard Neufeld

from 'Off the Grid': Fifteen Elegies, with author’s note

DEDICATION

FERVENT LOVE FRAMED WITH DEATH

CREMATION (HER BODY REDUCED TO ASHES)

Anthony Seidman

Three poems from 'That Beast in the Mirror' (2022)

Photo of Anthony Seidman by Jim Cardenas.
Photo of Anthony Seidman by Jim Cardenas.

Anthony Seidman is a poet translator from Los Angeles. His full-length translations include such classics of Mexican border literature as Smooth-Talking Dog (Deep Vellum) by Roberto Castillo Udiarte and A Stab in the Dark (LARB Classics) by Facundo Bernal. 

Poem at 100 M.P.H

 

When the engine growls,

when lane markers shoot

laser-white, and desert blurs

over windshield, dust,

cacti, sagebrush torched by

decades of drought, and the

mountains are waves that