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Born in 1931, Jerome Rothenberg\\xa0is an\\xa0American\\xa0poet, translator and anthologist, noted for his work in the fields of\\xa0ethnopoetics\\xa0and\\xa0performance poetry.\\xa0

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Technicians of the Sacred\\xa0(1968), which signalled the beginning of an approach to poetry that Rothenberg, in collaboration with\\xa0George Quasha, named \\u201cethnopoetics,\\u201d went beyond the standard collection of folk songs to include visual and sound poetry and the texts and scenarios for ritual events. Some 150 pages of commentaries gave context to the works included and placed them as well in relation to contemporary and experimental work in the industrial and postindustrial West. Over the next ten years, Rothenberg also founded and with Dennis Tedlock co-edited\\xa0Alcheringa, the first magazine of ethnopoetics (1970\\u201373, 1975ff.) and edited further anthologies, including:-\\xa0Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas\\xa0(1972, 2014);\\xa0A Big Jewish Book: Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to the Present\\xa0(revised and republished as\\xa0Exiled in the Word, 1977 and 1989);\\xa0America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present\\xa0(1973, 2012), co-edited with George Quasha; and\\xa0Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward An Ethnopoetics\\xa0(1983), co-edited with Diane Rothenberg. Rothenberg\\u2019s approach throughout was to treat these large collections as deliberately constructed assemblages or collages, on the one hand, and as manifestos promulgating a complex and multiphasic view of poetry on the other. Speaking of their relation to his work as a whole, he later wrote of the anthology thus conceived as \\u201can assemblage or pulling together of poems & people & ideas about poetry (& much else) in the words of others and in [my] own words. That imago \\u2013 that representation of where we\'ve been and what we\'ve lived through \\u2013 is something in fact that I would stand by \\u2013 like any poem.\\u201d

...along with Nicholson Baker, Robert Graves and Laura Riding, pretty well summarizes what we talk about.\\xa0