Altar Pieces

by Jerome Rothenberg, Patricia Nedds (Illustrator)

Overview

Visionary, ethnopoetically-inspired text, combined with rich visual imagery and a unique fold-out design, make this slip of a book a true treasure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780930794484
Publisher:	Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Pages:	8
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over seventy books of poetry. Describing his poetry career as “an ongoing attempt to reinterpret the poetic past from the point of view of the present,” he has also edited seven major assemblages of traditional and contemporary poetry: Technicians of the Sacred (tribal and oral poetry from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania), Shaking the Pumpkin (traditional American Indian poetry), America a Prophecy (a radical revision of the poetries of the North American continent co-edited with George Quasha), Revolution of the Word (American experimental poetry between the two world wars), A Big Jewish Book (subtitled “Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to the Present”), and Poems for the Millennium (three volumes, co-edited with Pierre Joris and Jeffrey Robinson). He was elected to the World Academy of Poetry (UNESCO) in 2001.