Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally celebrated poet, translator, anthologist and performer with more than 90 books of poetry and 12 assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, Exiled in the Word (a.k.a. A Big Jewish Book) and, with Pierre Joris and Jeffrey Robinson, Poems for the Millennium, volumes 1 – 3.

His most recent books are Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader (2013) and Barbaric Vast and Wild: Outside and Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present (volume 5 of Poems for the Millennium, 2015). A 50th anniversary edition of Technicians of the Sacred has was recently published by University of California Press, and a new book of poems, A Field on Mars: Poems 2000 – 2015, was published last year in separate English and French editions.