Jerome Rothenberg
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Jerome Rothenberg | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | December 11, 1931
Died | April 21, 2024 Encinitas, California | (aged 92)
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Nationality | American |
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Literary movement | Ethnopoetics, Performance poetry |
Spouse | Diane Rothenberg |
Jerome Rothenberg (December 11, 1931 – April 21, 2024)[1] was an American poet, translator and anthologist, noted for his work in the fields of ethnopoetics and performance poetry.[2] Rothenberg co-founded the method of ethnopoetics with Dennis Tedlock in the late 1960s.[2]
Early life and education
Jerome Rothenberg was born and raised in
Career
In the late 1950s, he published translations of German poets, including the first English translation of poems by Paul Celan and Günter Grass, among others. He also founded Hawk's Well Press and the magazines Poems from the Floating World and some/thing, the latter with David Antin, publishing work by important American avant-garde poets, as well as his first collection, White Sun Black Sun (1960). He wrote works which he described as deep image in the 1950s and early 1960s, during that time publishing eight more collections, and the first of his extensive anthologies of traditional and modern poetry, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poems from Africa, America, Asia, & Oceania (1968, revised and expanded 1985).[5] By the end of the 1960s, he had also become active in poetry performance, had adapted a play (The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth, 1964) for Broadway production and had opened the range of his experimental work well beyond the earlier “deep image” poetry.
His works are often read and analyzed in college English classes, such as in the course, Poetry From Planet Earth, offered at Dawson College.
Ethnopoetics and anthologies
Rothenberg’s approach throughout was to treat these large collections as deliberately constructed
1970–1990
In 1970 the first version of Rothenberg's selected poems appeared as Poems for the Game of Silence (2000), and soon after that he became one of the poets published regularly by
Rothenberg also re-explored
1990s–2010s
In 1987, Rothenberg received his first
Rothenberg published a new book of selected essays, Poetics & Polemics 1980–2005, in 2008, and volume three of Poems for the Millennium, co-edited with Jeffrey C. Robinson as a nineteenth-century prequel to the first two volumes, in 2009. Numerous translated editions of his writings have appeared in French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, and other languages, and a complete French edition of Technicians of the Sacred appeared in 2008.
An expanded 50th Anniversary Edition of Technicians of the Sacred appeared in 2017 and received a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award in 2018. Charles Bernstein has written of him: “The significance of Jerome Rothenberg's animating spirit looms larger every year. … [He] is the ultimate 'hyphenated' poet: critic-anthropologist-editor-anthologist-performer-teacher-translator, to each of which he brings an unbridled exuberance and an innovator's insistence on transforming a given state of affairs." In 2014, work from Rothenberg appeared in the second issue of The Literati Quarterly.[8]
Death
Rothenberg died at his home in Encinitas, California[9] on April 21, 2024, at the age of 92. He is survived by his wife and collaborator of 71 years, Diane.[10][11]
See also
References
- ^ "Jerome Rothenberg: December 11, 1931 – April 21, 2024 | Jacket2". jacket2.org. Archived from the original on April 24, 2024. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
- ^ a b "Obituaries - Dennis Tedlock". www.buffalo.edu. Archived from the original on December 8, 2023. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
- ^ Finkelstein, Norman (Autumn, 1998). Contemporary Literature Vol. 39, No. 3; The Messianic Ethnography of Jerome Rothenberg's "Poland/1931". Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
- ISBN 0-87773-117-9.
- ^ Jake Marmer. "Technician of the Sacred". Tablet. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ^ "Sound & Syntax International Festival of Sound Poetry, Jerome Rothenberg 1978". The Glasgow Miracle Archives. Centre for Contemporary Arts. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ^ David Noriega (May 26, 2021). "The Original Performance Poetry". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ^ "The Literati Quarterly | Autumn 2014 | No. 2 by The Literati Quarterly - Issuu". issuu.com. October 3, 2014. Archived from the original on March 17, 2024. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
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- ^ Mendoza, Enrique (April 22, 2024). "Murió el poeta estadounidense Jerome Rothenberg". Zeta Libre Como El Viento. Archived from the original on April 23, 2024. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
- ^ "Enluta partida de 'etnopoeta'". El Norte. April 23, 2024. Archived from the original on April 23, 2024. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
Bibliography
- Sherman Paul, Search of the Primitive: Rereading David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg and Gary Snyder, Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
- Barbara Gitenstein, Apocalyptic Messianism and Contemporary Jewish-American Poetry, State University of New York Press, 1986.
- Eric Mottram, "Where the Real Song Begins: The Poetry of Jerome Rothenberg", in Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 2, nos. 2-4, 1986.
- Harry Polkinhorn, Jerome Rothenberg: A Descriptive Bibliography, Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, McFarland Publishing Company and American Poetry Contemporary Bibliography Series, 1988.
- Hank Lazer, “Thinking Made in the Mouth: The Cultural Poetics of David Antin & Jerome Rothenberg” (& passim), in H. Lazer, Opposing Poetries, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1996.
- Jed Rasula, “Jerome Rothenberg", in Dictionary of Literary Biography 193: American Poets since World War II, Sixth Series, ed. Joseph Conte, 1998.
- Essay by Pierre Joris in Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets, Michael Taub and Joel Shatzky (eds), Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. and London, 1999.
- Robert Archambeau, ed., special issue on Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, Samizdat, no. 7, Winter 2001.
- Heriberto Yépez, “Jerome Rothenberg, chamán crítico", in H. Yépez, Escritos heteróclitos, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, 2001.
- Christine Meilicke, Jerome Rothenberg’s Experimental Poetry and Jewish Tradition, Lehigh University Press, 2005.
External links
- Jerome Rothenberg at the EPC
- Jerome Rothenberg on PennSound
- Special issue of Samizdat dedicated to Rothenberg and Pierre Joris
- A Poem by Jerome Rothenberg "A Deep Romantic Chasm" @ Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks
- Jerome Rothenberg reads from China Notes and the Treasures of Dunhuang at Beyond Baroque, December 17 2005 (video)
- Poems and Poetics blog, edited by Jerome Rothenberg
- The roots and the energies of poetry video, performance by Jerome Rothenberg