Creator Bio
Jerome Rothenberg
b. 1931
Poet Jerome Rothenberg was born and raised in New York City. He has written and edited more than seventy books and has translated works from German. He refers to his style as “ethnopoetics,” and is a member of both the visual arts and literature faculties at the University of California, San Diego. Rothenberg’s works have received the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Award and the PEN Center USA West Award.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Nokh Aushvits (After Auschwitz)
the poem is ugly & they make it uglier
wherein the power resides
that duncan did—or didn’t—understand
when listening that evening to the other poet read
he said “that was pure ugliness” & oh it was
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