Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg's Poland /1931, a continuing series of ancestral poems, has been appearing in installments over the course of five years, published in limited edition by various small presses.

Poland/1931

Kevin Bertolero

I feel pretty fortunate that the Potsdam College library has a copy of this book. I came across this while doing research for a paper on Jerome Rothenberg's translations of Paul Celan's poems for my graduate translation theory class. This book (if it can even be called that-- more of a collection of papers) is printed on handmade Japanese paper ("Hosho") and is unbound on a collection of twelve poem "leafs". This is also a limited edition copy of the book which is pretty awesome (copy #374/550), published by Unicorn Press. In the left flap of the book is a collection of photographs and maps that correlate to some of the poems. This was pretty cool to read. "Milk and Honey" is definitely my favorite from this collection.

Poland/1931

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