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“Rothenberg’s concept of ethnopoetics works as a brilliant counter to the dominant literary regime of tight ass Brits and their Yankee counterparts.”
Filed under: Poetry, The Brouillon | Tags: ethnopoetics, Jerome Rothenberg, poetry anthologies
Leave a comment 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!
In Good Company
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Jerome Rothenberg posted today some poems from his “Pound Project”, a set of sixteen-line poems that riff off lines of Pound’s. Rothenberg writes Pound is “a strong poetry influence for many of us ([him]self [& myself] included)”. And the poetic at work in his series echoes that at work in a sequence of poems I wrote in response to (Ezraversity graduate) Louis Dudek’s penultimate book of poems.
Rothenberg has been an important influence and/or poeticultural coworker for me, too: his Technicians of the Sacred strongly orients my own understanding of what poetry has and can be, and his Poems for the Millenium assemblages, especially Volume III, Romantic and Postromantic poetry, resonate with my own present concerns. It’s good to be in such spiritual, poetic company, however physically distant.
Jerome Rothenberg on “The Symposium of the Whole”
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Leave a comment Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred has been central and essential to my understanding of what poetry is and can be since I first started teaching from it at the turn of the millennium. I find it difficult even to discuss poetry and poetics in an informed fashion with anyone unfamiliar with it, or with those equally expansive volumes, assembling poems for the millennium, that followed.
Now, Technicians is being issued in a third edition, fifty years after the first. On this auspicious occasion, Jerome Rothenberg offers some words on the reissue and its timeliness, given the rise of ethnonationalisms, on the one hand, and the on-going extinctions of languages, their poetries, and speakers and singers, on the other. Linked is a talk on the new edition and ethnopoetics given recently at the The Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne.
Ignore at the peril to your own poetic spirit.
Symposium of the Whole to be reissued!
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Comments (1) I’ve often said I have a hard time discussing poetry seriously with anyone unacquainted with Jerome Rothenberg’s groundbreaking assemblage Technicians of the Sacred. Though it is still available, for too long the companion volume of poetics, Symposium of the Whole, has been out of print, and now happy word comes that these two volumes will soon be reissued in updated form.
Read Rothenberg’s original Pre-face and announcement of reissue here.
Symposium of the Whole cover
Poeta Doctus 