A Paradise of Poets Poetry

by Rothenberg, Jerome

• ISBN13: 9780811214278
• ISBN10: 0811214273
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-17
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

In Rothenberg's hands, the body of the poem is an extraordinarily malleable object. Collage, translation, even visual improvisation serve to open up his latest 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, and Vitezslav Nezval.

Table of Contents

At Tsukiji Market Tokyo	p. 3
New Improvisation: No. 1: imperial and iron stanzas	p. 8
New Improvisation: No. 2: looking hard can't see his face	p. 8
New Improvisation: No. 3: a man who doesn't look at you	p. 8
New Improvisation: No. 4: first liquid blood	p. 9
New Improvisation: No. 5: the sperm bed slippery	p. 9
New Improvisation: No. 6: a man without a face	p. 10
New Improvisation: No. 7: breaking the passage he spits	p. 10
New Improvisation: No. 8: a paper in the hand	p. 10
New Improvisation: No. 9: like ice the streets shine black	p. 11
Three Paris Elegies	p. 12
A Poem for the Cruel Majority	p. 15
At the Grave of Nakahara Chuya (1907-1937)	p. 18
The Treasures of Dunhuang	p. 23
In the Shadow of the 1000 Buddhas	p. 25
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997 (I)	p. 29
Toji Temple Kyoto 1997 (II)	p. 31
A Walkaround, for Neko	p. 32
First Night Poem, for Jackson Mac Low	p. 36
Autobiography 1997	p. 43
Autobiography 1998	p. 48
Autobiography 3: Picasso's Hundred	p. 57
The Leonardo Project: 10 + 2	p. 73
Four Translations
Night: A Suite for Piano and Poet's Voice, after Federico Garcia Lorca	p. 87
Five Kuwitter Poems, after Kurt Schwitters	p. 91
Diabolo, after Vitezslav Nezval	p. 94
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, after Pablo Picasso	p. 100
Postface	p. 117
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