“Rothenberg’s concept of ethnopoetics works as a brilliant counter to the dominant literary regime of tight ass Brits and their Yankee counterparts.”
I’ve said to anyone who will listen that any understanding of poetry—what it has been, 
is, and can be—ignorant of Rothenberg’s ethnopoetics is rootless and perverse.
Here’s an appreciation of his project I happened on by chance. Poets, ignore it at your peril!
Poeta Doctus 
Leave a Reply