Jérôme Rothenberg

As we move further into the new century and millennium, our work as poets has been compounded by the circumstances of the time in which we've all been working : events that have both reinforced that work-as poetry and prophecy-and an upsurge of forces that have come to stand against it. It is in this sense that we are proposing here an omnipoetics of the American hemisphere, as an experimental instance of what might be attempted further on a worldwide scale, toward what one of us once described as "an anthology of everything".