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Born in December 11, 1931 / United States / English

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POETRY

  • White Sun Black Sun, Hawk's Well Press (New York, NY), 1960.
  • The Seven Hells of the Jigoku Zoshi, Trobar (New York, NY), 1962.
  • Sightings I-IX, Hawk's Well Press (New York, NY), 1964.
  • The Gorky Poems, El Corno Emplumado (Mexico City, Mexico), 1966.
  • Between: 1960-1963, Fulcrum Press (London, England), 1967.
  • Conversations, Black Sparrow Press (Los Angeles, CA), 1968.
  • Poems 1964-1967, Black Sparrow Press (Los Angeles, CA), 1968.
  • (With Ian Tyson) Offering Flowers, Circle Press (London, England), 1968.
  • (With Ian Tyson) Sightings I-IX [and] Red Easy a Color, Circle Press (London, England), 1968.
  • Poland/1931, Part I, Unicorn Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1969.
  • (With Tom Phillips) The Directions, Tetrad Press (London, England), 1969.
  • Polish Anecdotes, Unicorn Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1970.
  • Poems for the Game of Silence, 1960-1970, Dial Press (New York, NY), 1971.
  • A Book of Testimony, Tree Books (Bolinas, CA), 1971.
  • Net of Moon, Net of Sun, Unicorn Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1971.
  • (With Ian Tyson and Richard Johnny John) Poems for the Society of the Mystic Animals, Tetrad Press (London, England), 1972.
  • A Valentine No a Valedictory for Gertrude Stein, Judith Walker (London, England), 1972.
  • (With Ian Tyson) Three Friendly Warnings, Tetrad Press (London, England), 1973.
  • Esther K. Comes to America, Unicorn Press (Greensboro, NC), 1973.
  • Seneca Journal 1: A Poem of Beavers, Perishable Press (Madison, WI), 1973.
  • Poland/1931 (complete), New Directions (New York, NY), 1974.
  • The Cards, Black Sparrow Press (Los Angeles, CA), 1974.
  • The Pirke and the Pearl, Tree Books (Berkeley, CA), 1975.
  • (With Philip Sultz) Seneca Journal: Midwinter, Singing Bone Press (St. Louis, MO), 1975.
  • A Poem to Celebrate the Spring and Diane Rothenberg's Birthday, Perishable Press (Madison, WI), 1975.
  • Book of Palaces: The Gatekeepers, Pomegranate Press (Boston, MA), 1975.
  • (With Ian Tyson) I Was Going through the Smoke, Tetrad Press (London, England), 1975.
  • Rain Events, Membrane Press (Milwaukee, WI), 1975.
  • The Notebooks, Membrane Press (Milwaukee, WI), 1976.
  • A Vision of the Chariot in Heaven, Hundred Flowers Bookshop (Boston, MA), 1976.
  • (With Ian Tyson) Narratives and Realtheater Pieces, Braad Editions (Bretenoux, France), 1977.
  • (With Philip Sultz) Seneca Journal: The Serpent, Singing Bone Press (St. Louis, MO), 1978.
  • A Seneca Journal (complete), New Directions (New York, NY), 1978.
  • Abulafia's Circles, Membrane Press (Milwaukee, WI), 1979.
  • B.R.M.Tz.V.H., Perishable Press (Madison, WI), 1979.
  • Letters and Numbers, Salient Seedling Press (Madison, WI), 1980.
  • Vienna Blood and Other Poems, New Directions (New York, NY), 1980.
  • For E. W.: Two Sonnets, Spot Press (London, England), 1981.
  • Imaginal Geography 9: Landscape with Bishop, Atticus Press (San Diego, CA), 1982.
  • The History of Dada as My Muse, Spot Press (London, England), 1982.
  • Altar Pieces, Station Hill Press, (Tarrytown, NY), 1982.
  • That Dada Strain, New Directions (New York, NY), 1983.
  • (With Harold Cohen) 15 Flower World Variations, Membrane Press (Milwaukee, WI), 1984.
  • A Merz Sonata, illustrated by Debra Weier, Emanon Press (Easthampton, MA), 1985.
  • New Selected Poems, 1970-1985, New Directions (New York, NY), 1986.
  • Gematria 5, Bellevue Press (Binghamton, NY), 1987.
  • Khurbn and Other Poems, New Directions (New York, NY), 1989.
  • A Gematria for Jackson Mac Low, Imprints (London, England), 1991.
  • The Lorca Variations I-XXXIII, Zasterle Press (Tenerife, Spain), 1990, New Directions (New York, NY), 1993.
  • Gematria, Sun & Moon Press (Los Angeles, CA), 1994.
  • An Oracle for Delphi, illustrated by Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Light and Dust Books (Kenosha, WI), 1994.
  • Two Songs about Flowers & Where I Was Walking, privately printed, New College Book Arts (San Francisco, CA), 1995.
  • Pictures of the Crucifixion and Other Poems, drawings by David Rathman, typography by Philip Gallo, Granary Books (New York, NY), 1996.
  • A Flower like a Raven, translated from Kurt Schwitter's works, an artist's book edition by Barbara Fahrner, Granary Books (New York, NY), 1996.
  • Seedings and Other Poems, New Directions (New York, NY), 1996.
  • (With Ian Tyson) Twin Gematria, 1997.
  • Gematria 643, art by Ian Tyson, 1997.
  • Delight/Délices & Other Gematria, drawings by Ian Tyson, French translations by Nicole Peyrafitte, Editions Ottezec (Nimes, France), 1998.
  • At the Grave of Nakahara Chuya, Backwoods Broadsides (Ellsworth, ME), 1998.
  • The Treasures of Dunhuang, Graphic Arts Press (Bloomington, IN), 1998.
  • The Leonardo Project: 10+2 (visual poems), privately printed (San Diego, CA), 1998.
  • Paris Elegies and Improvisations, Meow Press (Buffalo, NY), 1998.
  • A Paradise of Poets: New Poems & Translations, New Directions (New York, NY), 1999.
  • (With Ian Tyson) The Case for Memory, and Other Poems, Granary Books (New York, NY), 2001.
  • A Book of Witness: Spells and Gris-Gris, New Directions (New York, NY), 2002.

RECORDINGS

  • Origins and Meanings, Folkways, 1968.
  • From a Shaman's Notebook, Folkways, 1968.
  • Horse Songs and Other Soundings, S-Press, 1975.
  • 6 Horse Songs for 4 Voices, New Wilderness Audiographics, 1978.
  • Jerome Rothenberg Reads Poland/1931, New Fire, 1979.
  • Jerome Rothenberg, New Letters (Kansas City, MO), 1979.
  • Rothenberg, Turetsky: Performing, Blues Economique, 1984.
  • The Birth of the War God (with Charles Morrow) and The Western Wind, Laurel, 1988.
  • (With Charles Morrow) Signature, Granary, 2001.

PLAYS

  • The Deputy (adaptation of a play by Rolf Hochhuth; produced in New York, NY, 1964), Samuel French (New York, NY), 1965.
  • That Dada Strain, music by Bertram Turetsky, produced by Center for Theater Science and Research, San Diego, CA, 1985, produced in New York, NY, 1987.
  • Poland/1931, produced by The Living Theater, New York, NY, 1988.
  • (With Makoto Oda and Charles Morrow) Khurbn/Hiroshima, produced by Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, VT.

OTHER

  • (Editor and translator) New Young German Poets, City Lights (San Francisco, CA), 1959.
  • (Editor) Ritual: A Book of Primitive Rites and Events (anthology), Something Else Press (New York, NY), 1966.
  • (Translator) The Flight of Quetzalcoatl (Aztec), Unicorn Bookshop (Brighton, England), 1967.
  • (Translator, with Michael Hamburger) Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1968, published as Selected Poems, Penguin (New York, NY), 1968.
  • (Editor and author of commentaries) Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1968, 2nd revised edition, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1985.
  • (Translator) Eugen Gomringer, The Book of Hours and Constellations, Something Else Press (New York, NY), 1968.
  • (Translator) The Seventeen Horse Songs of Frank Mitchell, Nos. X-XIII, Tetrad Press (London, England), 1970.
  • (Editor) Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americans, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1972, 2nd revised edition, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), 1991.
  • (Editor, with George Quasha) America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present, Random House (New York, NY), 1973.
  • (Editor) Revolution of the Word: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914-1945, Seabury-Continuum Books (New York, NY), 1974.
  • (Editor with Michel Benamou) Ethnopoetics: A First International Symposium, Alcheringa (Boston, MA), 1976.
  • (Translator, with Harris Lenowitz) Gematria 27, Membrane Press (Milwaukee, WI), 1977.
  • (Editor, with Harris Lenowitz and Charles Doria) A Big Jewish Book: Poems and Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to Present, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1978, contents revised as Exiled in the Word: Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to the Present, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1989.
  • Pre-Faces and Other Writings, New Directions (New York, NY), 1981.
  • (Editor and author of commentaries, with Diane Rothenberg) Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1983.
  • The Riverside Interviews 4: Jerome Rothenberg, edited by Gavin Selerie and Eric Mottram, Binnacle Press (London, England), 1984.
  • (Translator) Four Lorca Suites, Sun and Moon Press (Los Angeles, CA), 1989.
  • (Editor and co-translator) Kurt Schwitters, Poems, Performance Pieces, Proses, Plays, Poetics, Temple University Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1993.
  • (Editor, with Pierre Joris) Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Post-Modern Poetry, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), Volume One: From Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude, 1995, Volume Two: From Postwar to Millennium, 1998.
  • (Editor, with David Guss) The Book, Spiritual Instrument, Granary Books (New York, NY), 1996.
  • (Editor, with Steven Clay) A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing, Granary Books (New York, NY), 2000.
  • (Translator, with Milos Sovak) Vitezslav Nexval, Antilyrik and Other Poems, Green Integer, 2001.
  • (Translator) Frederico García Lorca, The Suites, Green Integer, 2001.
  • (Co-editor with Pierre Joris, and translator) Pablo Picasso, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and Other Poems, Exact Change, 2002.
  • "Writing Through": Translations and Variations, Wesleyan University Press, 2002.

Contributor of poetry to anthologies, including A Controversy of Poets, edited by Paris Leary and Robert Kelly, Doubleday-Anchor, 1965; New Modern Poetry, edited by M. L. Rosenthal, Macmillan, 1967; Notations, edited by John Cage, Something Else Press, 1969; Caterpillar Anthology, edited by Clayton Eshleman, Doubleday-Anchor, 1971; East Side Scene, edited by Allen DeLoach, Doubleday- Anchor, 1972; New Directions Annual, edited by James Laughlin, New Directions, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980; Preferences, edited by Richard Howard, Viking, 1974; The New Naked Poetry, edited by Stephen Berg and Robert Mezey, Bobbs-Merrill, 1976; Talking Poetics at Naropa, edited by Anne Waldman and Marilyn Webb, Shambala Books, 1978; Esthetics Contemporary, edited by Richard Kostelanetz, Prometheus Books, 1979; The New American Poetry, edited by Donald M. Allen and George Butterick, Grove Press, 1980; The Terror of Our Days: Four American Poets Respond to the Holocaust, edited by Harriet L. Parmet, Lehigh University Press, 2001; and Jewish American Literature: An International Anthology of Sound Poetry, edited by J. Chametzky, J. Felstiner, H. Flanzbaum, and K. Hellerstein, W. W. Norton, 2001. Contributor to numerous journals, including Caterpillar, Trobar, Kulchur, El Corno Emplumado, Action Poetique, American Book Review, American Poetry Review, Contact II, Boundary 2, Change, Dialectical Anthropology, Io, l-a-n-g- u-a-g-e, Partisan Review, Poetry Review, River Styx, and Vort. Founder and editor, Hawk's Well Press andPoems from the Floating World (magazine) 1959-64; co-editor, Some/ Thing, 1965-69; ethnopoetics editor, Stony Brook, 1968-71; co-editor, Alcheringa: A First Magazine of Ethnopoetics, 1970-76; editor, New Wilderness Letter, 1976—. Rothenberg's manuscript collection is housed as the University of California, San Diego. Rothenberg's work has been translated into French, Swedish, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, German, Serbian, Finnish, Portuguese, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Japanese.