Pre-Faces and Other Writings - Rothenberg, Jerome

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Résumé :
Pre-Faces & Other Writings?is the first collection of poetics by one of the most revolutionary literary innovators of our time. In addition to more than twenty volumes of his own poetry Jerome Rothenberg has been active in a wide area of contemporary experimentation: poetry performance, both as reading and as happening...

Biographie:
and the exploration of new techniques of translation especially appropriate to tribal/oral poetry. Almost singlehandedly, he founded the interdisciplinary field of ethnopoetics--both as the investigation of poetry across the full range of human cultures and its practice in relation to our own. Called an oral poet by some, a post-modernist by others, Rothenberg's own views--both the theories and their applications--have never before been gathered...

Sommaire:
the assembling of radical anthologies and magazines (such as?Technicians of the Sacred?and?Alcheringa) aimed at the creation of a fresh environment of poetries freed from the bondage of a monolithic great tradition...