A Paradise of Poets is Jerome Rothenberg's tenth book of poetry to
be published by New Directions, beginning with his Poland/1931
(1974). In considering the title of his newest collection, he says:
"Writing poetry for me has always included an involvement with the
life of poetry -- & through that life an intensification, when
it happened, of my involvement with the other life around me. In an
earlier poem I spoke of this creating a paradise of poets.... I do
not of course believe that such a paradise exists in any
supernatural or mystical sense, but I have sometimes felt it come
to life among my fellow poets and, even more, in writing -- in the
body of the poem".
In Rothenberg's hands, the body of the poem is an
extraordinarily malleable object. Collage, translation, even visual
improvisation serve to open up his newest book to the presence of
poets and artists he has known and to others, past and present, who
he feels have somehow touched him, among them Nakahara Chuya,
Jackson Mac Low, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Garcia
Lorca, Kurt Schwitters, Vitezslav Nezval. Kenneth Rexroth once
commented: "Jerome Rothenberg is one of our truly great American
poets who has returned U.S. poetry to the mainstream of
international modern literature.... No one has dug deeper into the
roots of poetry". With A Paradise of Poets, it is clear that this
evaluation is as fresh today as it was twenty-five years ago.
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