Jerome Rothenberg (born 1931) is an American poet and editor who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics. 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Ethnopoetics refers to poetic traditions which are typically seen as tribal or otherwise ethnic by the West (or indeed between any ethnoculturally different peoples). ...

Early Life and Work

Rothenberg was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York, graduating in 1952. In 1953, he got a Master's Degree in Literature from the University of Michigan. Rothenberg served in the U.S. Army in Mainz, Germany from 1953 to 1955, after which he did further graduate study at Columbia University, finishing in 1959. The construction of the Empire State Building, 1930. ... The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City) is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U-M, U of M, or U-Mich) is a public coeducational university in Michigan, United States. ... Mainz (French: Mayence) is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the late 1950s, he published translations of German poets, including the first English appearances of poems by Paul Celan and Günter Grass. He also founded Hawk's Well Press and the magazine Poems from the Floating World, publishing work by a number of the most important American avant-garde poets of the day and his own first book, White Sun Black Sun 1960. He published eight more collections between during the 1960s. German literature comprises those literary texts originating within Germany proper and written in the German language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass, Nobel Prize-winning German author, was born in the Free City of Danzig (Free City of GdaÅ„sk) on October 16, 1927. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Ethnopoetics

Rothenberg's interest in tribal poetry resulted in an anthology of poetry from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania called Technicians of the Sacred (1968). This anthology went beyond the standard collection of folk songs to include visual and sound poetry and the texts and scenarios for ritual events. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

He co-edited Alcheringa, the first ever magazine of ethnopoetics and edited further anthologies, including Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas (1972), a number of collections of Jewish poetry and Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward An Ethnopoetics, co-edited with Diane Rothenberg. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

Recent Work

Rothenberg was the theorist of the deep image group of poets. He has continued to be a prolific poet, publishing around another fifty books since 1971. These include New Selected Poems 1970-1985 (1986), Poems for the Game of Silence (2000) and Collaborations: Livres d’artiste 1968-2003 (2003). He has translated widely from German and Spanish poets. He is co-editor, with Pierre Joris, of Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry (Volume One 1995, Volume Two 1988). He has also edited a number of other anthologies and published a number of plays and essays. Deep image is a term coined by Jerome Rothenberg and used to describe poetry written by him and by Robert Kelly, Diane Wakoski and Clayton Eshleman. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pierre Joris, born in Strasbourg, France in 1946, left Luxembourg at eighteen & has since lived in the US, Great Britain, North Africa & France. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Jerome Rothenberg at the EPC
• Jerome Rothenberg Papers