Poland, 1931

by Jerome Rothenberg

1974 NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK SOFTCOVER

Genres: Poetry

151 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1974

About the author

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known American poet, translator and anthologist who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics and poetry performance.

Reviews

[KV]

With this book, Rothenberg mines the deepest depths of Judaism, America, genealogy, language itself and so many other things to create a truly stunning poetry collection. Often I would have to read only a few at a time, going back and spending the rest of my day unpacking them. A one of one writer, surely underrated in our time, and surely to become a titan once again in the future.

[Marcus]

Jerome Rothenberg gave me this book in exchange for my book Godzenie at Soundeye Poetry festival in Cork, Ireland a few years ago. Needless to say I was blown away. By the book. By the humbleness and generosity of Jerome Rothenberg. Such a generous and open and encouraging human being. They don't make them like this anymore!!!

[Kevin Bertolero]

I feel pretty fortunate that the Potsdam College library has a copy of this book. I came across this while doing research for a paper on Jerome Rothenberg's translations of Paul Celan's poems for my graduate translation theory class. This book (if it can even be called that-- more of a collection of papers) is printed on handmade Japanese paper ("Hosho") and is unbound on a collection of twelve poem "leafs". This is also a limited edition copy of the book which is pretty awesome (copy #374/550), published by Unicorn Press. In the left flap of the book is a collection of photographs and maps that correlate to some of the poems. This was pretty cool to read. "Milk and Honey" is definitely my favorite from this collection.

[C.A.]

FANTASTIC BOOK! Mr. Rothenberg was recently in Philadelphia to read and discuss THIS, and other books. You can see the video, or listen to the audio here: http://writing.upenn.edu/~whfellow/ro...