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Biographie de Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet with over ninety books of poetry (Poland/1931, Thar Dada Strain, The Lorca Variaitons, Khurbn, and others) and nine assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, Revolution of the Word, and Poems for the Millennium (volumes 1 and 2, with Pierre Joris, volume 3 with Jeffrey Robinson, volume 5 with John Bloomberg-Rissman).
Since the late 1950s, he has been involved with various aspects of poetry performance, including a theatrical version of his book, Poland/1931, by Hanon Reznikov and the Living Theater, and a musical version of Khurbn (with composer Charlie Morrow and Japanese novelist Makoto Oda) produced for the Bread & Puppet Theater in 1995. With his anthologies and journals such as Alcheringa and New Wilderness Lester, Rothenberg has long been a central mover in the development of an ethnopoetics "as a necessary component of any truly innovative poetics," and he has also translated from a wide range of poets (Lorca, Gomringer, Schwitters, Picasso, and Nezval, among others), His work in various areas has been recognized with a Guggenheim fellowship, a Wenner-Gren Foundation award for experimental ethnopoetic translation, several awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, two PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Awards for poetry, two PEN Center USA West Awards and one PEN American Center Award for translation, an Alfonso el Sabio Translation Award, an American Book Award for his selected writings on poetics and another for Poems for the Millennium, volume 3, and an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York.
A Book of Witness, his twelfth book of poems from New Directions, appeared in 2003, and a thirteenth book, Triptych, appeared in 2007. A first translation into French of Technicians of the Sacred was published by José Corti in Paris in 2008 ; a nineteenth-century prequel to Poems for the Millennium, coedited with Jeffrey Robinson, appeared in early 2009 ; and a firth volume (Barbaric Vast & Wild : Outside & Subterranean Poetry), co-edited with John Bloomberg-Rissman, appeared in 2015.
His second collection of literary essays, Poetics & Polemics 1980-2005, appeared at the end of 2008. and new books of poems published since 2010 include Gematria Complete, Concealments & Caprichos, Retrievals : Uncollected &New Poems 1955-2010, A Poem of Miracles, and Eye of Witness : A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. He has until recently been a professor of visual arts and literature at the University of California, San Diego.