Jerome Rothenberg

Poems and poetics

Philip Davenport and Julia Grime, editors

From 'Refuge from the Ravens: New Lyrical Ballads for the 21st Century'

Drawing by Keiron, Back on Track, Manchester.
Drawing by Keiron, Back on Track, Manchester.

With an afterword by Jeffrey Robinson

Kent Johnson

Four odes after Horace, on the poetry wars

Horace, as imagined by the nineteenth-century Italian painter Giacomo di Chirico
Horace, as imagined by the nineteenth-century Italian painter Giacomo di Chirico.

AUTHOR’S NOTE. The following “transcreations,” or “translucinations,” are from a longer series engaging Horace, which I composed and shared on my Facebook page in May and June of 2022. Others of them were recently published as a chap by Longhouse Publishers, and the full run is forthcoming as part of a larger collection later this year. They are in no way meant to be translations proper, except in a desire to bring over a sense of the Horatian “tone.” Which they perhaps do in parts, and in other parts don’t.

Jerome Rothenberg

Two sets of variations, for Cecilia Vicuña and Gloria Gervitz

[N.B. Based on nouns drawn by systematic chance from poems by Gloria Gervitz and Cecilia Vicuña and freely recomposed here by Jerome Rothenberg. The original poems to appear next year in Rothenberg and Taboada, A Book of Americas.]

WORDS & THREADS: A POEM OF VARIATIONS

for Cecilia Vicuña

 

 1/

a body hanging

by a thread

cries emptiness

Jerome Rothenberg and Arie Galles

'GRAFFITE,' three suites after images by Arie Galles, Part Three

 

 

the more a man’s arms

stretch

to reach the woman’s

 

& the branches

can no longer bear

their weight

[Continued from previous postings on Poems and Poetics, here and here.]

 

Part Three

THE PEPPER TREES

 

Cecilia Vicuña

'Word & Thread,' with commentary on quipoems etc.

translated from Spanish by Rosa Alcalá

 

[reprinted from earlier posting on Poems and Poetics, in recognition of recent recoveries and discoveries]

Word is thread and the thread is language.
Non-linear body.
A line associated to other lines.