Jerome Rothenberg

Poems and poetics

Stuart Cooke

from 'Toward an Ethological Poetics: The Transgression of Genre and the Poetry of the Albert’s Lyrebird'

[N.B. Cooke’s essay, in its entirety, can be found here.]

[Abstract. In an attempt to respond to the West’s general obliviousness to nonhuman semiosis, this article proposes a method for appreciating nonhuman poetics. By combining the critical tools of poetics and literary theory with insights from ethology and biosemiotics, Stuart Cooke outlines a method of criticism for nonhuman creative compositions.

Rae Armantrout

Four Poems from 'Entanglements,' with a note by the author

[The poems, below, appeared two years ago in Armantrout’s small book Entanglements, published by Wesleyan University Press and still readily available. The author’s note that follows was written specifically for Poems and Poetics, as an opening and guide to her remarkable and always mind-bending “physics-inspired writing.” (J.R.)]

[The poems, below, appeared two years ago in Armantrout’s small book Entanglements, published by Wesleyan University Press and still readily available. The author’s note that follows was written specifically for Poems and Poetics, as an opening and guide to her remarkable and always mind-bending “physics-inspired writing.” (J.R.)]


Running

Jerome Rothenberg, with Javier Taboada

From 'UN LIBRO DE LAS VOCES' (forthcoming)

The following are the opening pages of Un Libro de las Voces (A Book of Voices), scheduled for publication early next year by Mangos de Hacha in Mexico, D.F. and the Universidad de Nueva Léon in Monterrey.

[The following are the opening pages of Un Libro de las Voces (A Book of Voices), scheduled for publication early next year by Mangos de Hacha in Mexico, D.F.

Rochelle Owens

'Everlasting Duration,' in memory of George

George Economou (1934–2019)
George Economou (1934–2019)

You are sitting down

to a late lunch

in my castle on a hill

 

while a jazz trio plays

You are sitting down

to a late lunch

in my castle on a hill

 

while a jazz trio plays

 

then suddenly

a chemical reaction

takes place —

 

Javier Taboada

'Three visions of Toño,' translated by Cole Heinowitz

[In celebration of our work together coediting the transnational assemblage of North and South American poetry from origins to present, in progress and scheduled for publication by University of California Press, Im posting here these three connected poems from Javier Taboadas most recent gathering.