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Jerome Rothenberg - Comments & Themes

Topics for research and critical analysis:

  • Analyze Jerome Rothenberg’s poetic craft to vocabulary, structure, especially attending to variations, numerology, collaging of words, gematria…

  • Consider Rothenberg’s Jewishness as related to his memories, histories, and family.

  • Indicate Rothenberg’s use of formal devices that make the poem surreal.

  • Investigate the concept of “total translation” in Rothenberg’s poetry and how he appropriates sources and othering.

  • Explain Rothenberg’s involvement with the other life around him.

  • Please, attend and decipher Rothenberg’s “reading” as “happening.”

  • Develop Rothenberg’s own view on himself as both oral and postmodernist poet.