New Selected Poems, 1970-1985

By Jerome Rothenberg

Book Overview

Acclaimed poet and translator, editor of such ground-breaking journals and anthologies as Alcheringa and Technicians of the Sacred, pioneer in the fields of performance poetry and ethnopoetics, Jerome Rothenberg is a literary radical and a major force in American poetry. Gathered here in his New Selected Poems 1970-1985 are pivotal poems from four previous New Directions collections, Poland/1931 (1974), A Seneca Journal (1978), Vienna Blood (1980), and That Dada Strain (1983). Rothenberg describes his new selection as "an attempt to isolate in the work of the last fifteen years (and a little more) the thread of a single long poem or sequence [in which] figures and voice's without context in the earlier books...find a location and a shape." Open-ended, explorative, and exuberantly and irreverently epic, the sequence ends with two new and previously uncollected poems, "15 Flower World Variations" and "Visions of Jesus."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811209970
• ISBN13: 9780811209977
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"