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As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.

Jerome Rothenberg

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.

Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg

Born: December 11, 1931

Died: April 21, 2024 (aged 92)

Bio: Jerome Rothenberg was an American poet, translator and anthologist, noted for his work in the fields of ethnopoetics and performance poetry.

Known for:

Poems for the Millennium (1998)
Shaking the Pumpkin (1972)
A Seneca journal (1975)
A paradise of poets (1999)
Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader (2013)

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