Since its first publication in 1968, Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred has educated a generation of poets, artists, and readers to the multiple faces and possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful work book and an unequivocal delight," and by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the last thirty-five years, it appears here in a revised and expanded version several years in the making. Rothenberg's revision follows the structure and themes of the original version while reworking the contents to include a European section and a large number of newly gathered and translated poems that reflect the work set in motion since 1968.

Technicians of the Sacred : A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania

Literature & Fiction

Jerome Rothenberg

Poetry

University of California Press

Essays document the author's theories of poetry, discuss the goals of oral poetry, and analyze brief poems and poetic concepts

Pre-Faces & Other Writings

History & Criticism

New Directions

Pre-Faces and Other Writings

Jerome Rothenberg has raised the anthology to an art form. His most recent publication, Poems for the Millennium (University of California Press, 1995) reevaluates Modernism from a global perspective. Shaking the Pumpkin (1972) and America a Prophecy (1973) diversified the canon long before “multi-culturalism.” And his 1974 Revolution of the Word remains an unparalleled collection of American avant-garde writing from between the wars. Nearly 25 years after its first publication, this long out-of-print collection is still xeroxed for college courses because it contains works that are otherwise unavailable (by Else von Freytag-Loringhoven, Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, et al.), and because it places some of the most popular writers of the century--e.e cummings, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein--in their original context: the anarchistic experimentation of early Modernism.

Revolution of the Word : A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry, 1914-1945

Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated

Shaking the Pumpkin Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas

Alfred Van Der Mark

Despues de Auschwitz (Spanish Edition)

Pen Press

Combining two works written over the same time period Concealments and Caprichos is a two-pronged follow up to Rothenberg's earlier book of poems, A Book of Witness. As Rothenberg states in his preface, the title is based on a Jewish mystical work, Sifra diSeni'uta from which he drew the lines that open this title. Those lines appear sporadically throughout Concealments, not as the mapping of a nonexistent god, but as an intimation, in both Concealments and Caprichos, of an imagined world embedded in the real one.

Concealments and Caprichos (Black Widow Press Modern Poetry)

Commonwealth Books, Black Widow

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