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Jerome Rothenberg


photo: Layle Silbert (1972)


LINEbreak interview with Charles Bernstein (1996)

PennSound Podcast Featuring Jerome Rothenberg (15:41)


Jerome Rothenberg records for the Rockdrill CD series

Rockdrill 6

  • Sightings, Jerome Rothenberg: Poems 1960-1983
  • Rockdrill CD #6
  • Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
  • Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.
  1. Twentieth Century Unlimited (0:36): MP3
  2. 'A Little Boy Lost' (0:57): MP3
  3. A Bodhisattava Undoes Hell (2:22): MP3
  4. Sightings #1, #2, #4 (2:55): MP3
  5. The Pirate (1:31): MP3
  6. The Water of the Flowery Mill (0:59): MP3
  7. Child of an Idumean Night (3:24): MP3
  8. from Poland/1931 'The Wedding,' Yiddish translation by Amos Schauss (0:59): MP3
  9. from Poland/1931 'The Wedding' (2:27): MP3
  10. from Poland/1931 'The Wedding,' music by Bertram Turetzky (3:05): MP3
  11. Portrait of a Jew Old Country Style (3:04): MP3
  12. Cokboy: Part One (7:03): MP3
  13. Cokboy: Part Two (7:08): MP3
  14. The Animals Are Coming, translation from Senecan Indian with Richard Johnny John (1:25): MP3
  15. Introduction to 'A Seneca Journal' (1:02): MP3
  16. from 'A Seneca Journal 1: A Poem of Beavers' (1:38): MP3
  17. Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (1:33): MP3
  18. from The Dreamers (1:32): MP3
  19. The 13th Horse Song of Frank Mitchell (4:53): MP3
  20. from The First Horse Song of Frank Mitchell: 4-Voice Version (3:30): MP3
  21. The Chicago Poem (2:44): MP3
  22. The Chicago Poem, with music by George Lewis (3:53): MP3
  23. That Dada Strain (0:39): MP3
  24. That Dada Strain, with music by Bertram Turetzky (0:43): MP3
  25. Karawane (Hugo Ball), with music by Bertram Turetzky (1:57): MP3
  26. A Glass Tube Ecstasy for Hugo Ball, with music by Bertram Turetzky (1:53): MP3
  27. the Holy Words of Tristan Tzara (7:53): MP3
Rockdrill 7
  • Seedings, Jerome Rothenberg: Poems 1984-2003
  • Rockdrill CD #7
  • Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
  • Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.
  1. In the dark world, khurbn (0:42): MP3
  2. Dos Oysleydikn (The Emptying) (2:31): MP3
  3. In the dark world, khurbn [music by Charlie Morrow] (0:45): MP3
  4. Dos Oysleydikn (The Emptying) [music by Charlie Morrow] (2:38): MP3
  5. Dos Geshray (The Scream) [music by Charlie Morrow] (2:39): MP3
  6. Peroration for a Lost Town [music by Charlie Morrow] (6:04): MP3
  7. A Paradise of Poets (0:38): MP3
  8. Lorca Variations XXXIII: Second New York Poem (7:05): MP3
  9. Seedings (10:09): MP3
  10. Postlude to Seedings (2:21): MP3
  11. At Tsukiji Market, Tokyo (7:19): MP3
  12. New Improvisations (8:05): MP3
  13. Three Paris Elegies (5:00): MP3
  14. First Night Poem, for Jackson MacLow (3:41): MP3
  15. Autobiography 1997 (5:36): MP3
  16. Auschwitz-Birkenau (0:51): MP3
  17. Baba Yar (0:35): MP3
  18. The Case for Memory (0:49): MP3
  19. The Burning House (0:44): MP3
  20. Where God is Light (0:51): MP3
  21. A Real Man (0:50): MP3
  22. The Last Friend (0:43): MP3
  23. I Am Mad by Turns (0:59): MP3
  24. A Cruel Nirvana (0:52): MP3
  25. I Prefer a Poem with Spaces (1:04): MP3
  26. I Can't Say Who I Am (0:56): MP3
  27. I Come into the New World (1:19): MP3


Horse Songs & Other Soundings (S Press, 1975):
1. Horse Songs I (7:47)
2. Horse Songs X (4:25)
3. Horse Songs XI (4:09)
4. Horse Songs XII (5:57)
5. Horse Songs XIII (5:44)
6. Salamanca a Prophecy (Seneca Journal) (0:26)
7. Shaking the Pumpkin - opening songs (13:26)
8. Shaking the Pumpkin & Seneca Journal (3:08)
9. Seneca Journal 1 (10:11)
Rothenberg discusses "Horse Songs" and "total translation" at UBUWEB.


Multitrack recording with Jean-Charles Francois, percussion, and Bertram Turetzky, bass, circa  1975
That Dada Strain
1. Karawane (1:48)
2. A Glass Tube Ecstacy (2:27)
3. London Onion (1:44)
4. The Holy Words of Tristan Tzara (9:11)
5. Y-V (After Tristan Tzara) (2:01)


Poland 1931
1. The Wedding (3:45)
2. The King of the Jews (1:18)
3. The Beadle's Testimony (1:49)
4. The Rabbi's Testimony (1:51)
5. The 7 Melodies of Esther K. (4:04)
6. Esther K. Comes to America (4:43)
Performed by Jerome Rothenberg (voice), Jean-Charles François (percussion) and Bertram Turetzky (bass).
Recorded: circa 1985; originally produced as a private cassette


Horse Songs (four voices, 1978):
Part One (24:20)
Part Two (13:22)


University of California, San Diego, c. 1993
1. "Why was it the apple and not the pomegranate?" (0:35): MP3
2. About Lorca Variations (0:44): MP3
3. From Lorca Variations (5:24): MP3
4. Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (2:12): MP3
Complete Reading (9:50): MP3

Reading selections from Poems for the Millennium with Pierre Joris at the Kelly Writers House, 1998


Radio Readings Project (April 24, 1999):
1. A Paradise of Poets (1:45)
2. At Tsukiji Market, Tokyo October 19, 1996 (8:40)
3. Three Paris Elegies (7:40)
4. New Improvisations (9:32)
5. Anger, a Dream & Pain (1:34)
6. First Night Poem for Jackson Mac Low - Variations & Collage (8:40)
7. Discussion (14:29)

Reading at San Diego State University, February 28, 2001 (1:04:30): RealAudio


Signature (2001)
1. A Book of Witness (34:24)
2. Khurbn (12:06)
3. 14 Stations (8:34)
4. At Tsukiji Market Tokyo (8:06)
5. Paris Elegies (8:46)
Produced by Charlie Morrow. All music and sound was composed, created and performed by Charlie Morrow. Originally published by Granary Books and Charles Morrow Associates in an edition of 100 copies on the occasion of Jerome Rothenberg's 70th Birthday Celebration at the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, NYC, Dec 12, 2001. Poems 1989, 1996, 1999, 2001 Jerome Rothenberg. Texts originally published by New Directions. Music and Sound © 2001 Other Media (ASCAP) NY, NY. All rights reserved.


Rothenberg & the Klezmatics, 2002
Galician Nights, 2002 (6:26)


on Cross-Cultural Poetics #13 (hosted by Leonard Schwartz), 2003
complete program (27:45): MP3


In Memorium: Jackson Mac Low, recorded with Charlie Morrow, 2008
1. Jerome Rothenberg & Charlie Morrow — In Memorium: Jackson Mac Low (18:17): MP3
2. Charlie Morrow — Awakenings for Jackson Mac Low (15:52): MP3


Kelly Writers House Fellows Program, April 28-29, 2008

April 28th reading

1. Al Filreis Introduction (7:57): MP3
2. Matt Abess Introduction (4:43): MP3
3. Jamie Lee Josselyn Introduction (1:51): MP3
4. Three Paris Elegies (7:53): MP3
5. The Announciation (2:42): MP3
6. Aztec Definitions (4:10): MP3
7. Arnhem Land (1:33): MP3
8. Gift Event from the Kwakiutl (1:18): MP3
9. Crazy Dog Events (1:12): MP3
10. Poland/ 1931: The Wedding (4:28): MP3
11. The Student's Testimony (7:04): MP3
12. In the Dark Word Khurbn (3:50): MP3
13. Dos Oysleydikin (The Emptying) (2:52): MP3
14. Peroration for a Lost Town (7:01): MP3
15. For the God of Europe (4:17): MP3
16. The Burning Babe (1:43): MP3
17. From The Book of Concealments, Righting an Ancient Wrong (1:55): MP3
18. From The Book of Concealments, Larger than Life (0:55): MP3
19. From The Book of Concealments, Let it Be Ice (0:54): MP3
20. From The Book of Concealments, What Believers See (1:02): MP3
21. From The Book of Concealments, The Mystery of Evil (2:02): MP3
22. Night Poems in Memoriam Jackson Mac Low (14:48): MP3
23. Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (3:44): MP3

Complete Reading (1:32:08): MP3   Streaming QuickTime Video


April 29th discussion with Al Filreis (1:14:21): MP3   Streaming QuickTime Video

  1. introduction by Al Filreis (4:20): MP3
  2. poetry and Treblinka (6:50): MP3
  3. Jewish identity (5:01): MP3
  4. Jewish dream (7:57): MP3
  5. "Technicians of the Sacred" (5:24): MP3
  6. Robert Duncan (7:54): MP3
  7. "The Burning Babe" and Robert Duncan (0:46): MP3
  8. on travel (3:49): MP3
  9. travel and elegy (2:42): MP3
  10. Paul Blackburn (4:25): MP3
  11. Surrealism, Dada and ethnopoetics (4:01): MP3
  12. contemporary American avant-poetics (1:48): MP3
  13. tensions within the avant-garde (4:06): MP3
  14. Secularism and poetics (4:54): MP3
  15. poetry in the classroom (2:13): MP3
  16. Paul Celan (5:52): MP3
  17. "A Letter to Paul Celan, in Memory, December 1975" (2:21): MP3


A 40th Anniversary Celebration of Technicians of the Sacred, at the Bowery Poetry Club, September 14, 2008


Reading from Poems for the Millennium III, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 7, 2009
complete reading (1:46:24): MP3

Jerome Rothenberg's Segments:
Introduction with Jeffery Robinson (11:51): MP3
First Break (3:38): MP3
Second Break (3:02): MP3
Closing Poem (1:23): MP3



Also on PennSound:
Secular Jewish Culture/Radical Poetic Practice
Jerome Rothenberg at the benefit reading for Will Alexander (7:45): mp3
PoemTalk Podcast #7 on Rothenberg's "A Paradise of Poets"


Jerome Rothenberg on PennSound Daily

 

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