Jerome Rothenberg holds a premier place in the American
avant-garde. The poems in Seedings, his newest collection, leap
across history. Past and future become entwined, and the intricate
paths reaching from one century and one millennium into another
double back into timelessness ("as the twentieth century winds
down/the nineteenth century begins/again"). The long title poem
that opens this fin-de-siecle gathering is, appropriately, a
celebration of poets and friends--such as Robert Duncan, George
Oppen, and Paul Blackburn--who have entered what Rothenberg calls
"a Paradise of Poets." "Seedings" is followed by four other
sections, "Improvisations" is a series of high-energy poems in a
mode of open writing characteristic of much of the poet's
experimental work, while "Twentieth Century Unlimited" is an
assemblage of travel poems and personal observations. "An Oracle
for Delfi" revisits and sees anew a classical landscape long the
inheritance of Western poets. A final sequence, "14 Stations,"
joins the concise verbal techniques of gematria (traditional Hebrew
numerology) with the stark agonies of the Holocaust last explored
by Rothenberg in Khurbn & Other Poems (1989).
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