Jerome Rothenberg

Poems and poetics
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Leonard Neufeld

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

Jerome Rothenberg

DEDICATION

FERVENT LOVE FRAMED WITH DEATH

CREMATION (HER BODY REDUCED TO ASHES)

Anthony Seidman

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

Jerome Rothenberg
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

Scott Ezell

from 'Journey to the End of the Empire: On the Road in Eastern Tibet,' with author's note

Jerome Rothenberg

Camphor Press, 2022

https://www.camphorpress.com/books/journey-to-the-end-of-the-empire/

From 'A Book of Americas' (in progress)

The collective Amereida poem, translated by Javier Taboada, with commentaries attached

Jerome Rothenberg
From the first “travesía,” voyage, made in 1965
From the first “travesía,” voyage, made in 1965

Various authors

from AMEREIDA [AMERODYSSEY]

 

the journey reaches its height

as the eyes

 

its traveled soil

wouldn’t it reveal in the flesh

a rhythm

to start off a language?

Ricardo Cázares

New poems from 'So to Speak,' with translator’s note

Jerome Rothenberg

Translated from Spanish by Joe Imwalle

 

(the rest

begins with brambles

bushes

                        mulberry trees sprouting

      at the base of the cypress