To begin ...

As the twentieth century fades out
the nineteenth begins
.......................................again
it is as if nothing happened
though those who lived it thought
that everything was happening
enough to name a world for & a time
to hold it in your hand
unlimited.......the last delusion
like the perfect mask of death

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Some Book Publications, Recent, Forthcoming & In-Progress


 
 For the record I will briefly insert the following list of some of my updated book publications, recently published or now awaiting publication.  A more comprehensive list of books, magazine publications, & interviews between 2009 & 2011 appeared here earlier on Poems and Poetics.

America a Prophecy, with George Quasha, reprinted by Station Hill Press, 2012.


Occasional Gematria, with Ian Tyson, revised version of artist’s book, published by ed.it, St Roman de Malegarde, France, 2012; original from Granary Books, 2011.


Paraíso de Poetas [selected poems], translation from Spanish by Heriberto Yépez, Editorial Arte y Literatura, Cuba, scheduled: 2012.

A Cruel Nirvana: The Notebooks / Narratives & Real Theater Pieces / Conversations, SplitLevel Texts, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2012.                                                     

Poland/1931 (“A Book of Writings” & “A Book of Testimony”), translation into French by Jean Portante, Editions Caractères, Paris, scheduled: 2013.
                                 
Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, edited with Heriberto Yépez, Black Widow Press, Boston, scheduled: 2013.

Shaking the Pumpkin, reprinted by Station Hill Press, scheduled: 2013.                           

Mistici, hoti si nebuni (Mystics Thieves & Madmen), translation into Romanian by Chris Tanasescu, Casa de Editura Max Blecher, Bucharest, scheduled: 2013.

Barbaric Vast & Wild: A Gathering of Outsider & Subterranean Poetry, with John Bloomberg-Rissman, in preparation.

Of these books, preliminary views of Barbaric Vast & Wild have appeared on Poems and Poetics for several years as a "mini-anthology in-progress of outsider poetry," & I've also posted or plan to post excerpts from America a Prophecy, Shaking the Pumpkin, & Eye of Witness.  The possibility of sharing & to some degree decommodifying our writings is one of the true pleasures of on-line publication -- at least for me.  (J.R.)

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