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POETS FOLLIES READINGS SERIES AT THE EWALD LIBRARY IN GROSSE POINTEMARICK PRESS READING SERIES INTRODUCE JEROME ROTHENBERGIn celebration of Poetry Month Marick Press and Grosse Pointe Artists Association introduce a reading of Gematria Complete ((Marick Press, 2010) by Jerome Rothenberg at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association located on  16900 Kercheval Avenue, Grosse Pointe, MI 48230 (313) 821-1848 on Sunday 25, 2010 at 5pm. Without doubt, Rothenberg's gematrias formalize the tension between the poet's voice and the voices of others. As this tension unfolds itself in the notion of "othering," it also resonates with the myth of dibbuks: in the same way as the restless souls of those who died too early return to inhabit the poet's body, the restless words of the dead return to haunt the poem, inscribing the memories tearing apart the bodies of the survivors in the body of the Hebrew letter, between radical absence and unbearable presence. …  With his gematrias, Jerome Rothenberg performs the literalization of something we already knew, if only vaguely: a word never stands alone, but always in a paradigm, and the legend of the dibbuk, of this voice of the dead that speaks through the body of the living against their will and obsesses them with its repetitions, is a legend of language.Hélène Aji Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over seventy books of poetry including acclaimed volumes such as Poland/1931, Khurbn, and The Lorca Variations (all from New Directions). Describing his poetry career as "an ongoing attempt to reinterpret the poetic past from the point of view of the present," he has also edited ten major anthologies, including Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and Poems for the Millennium (three volumes, co-edited with Pierre Joris and Jeffrey C. Robinson). His poetry has been translated extensively into French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Polish, Japanese, Lithuanian, Chinese, and Finnish. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and was awarded an American Book Award, two PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Awards and two PEN Center USA West Translation Awards, among other honors. He was elected to the World Academy of Poetry in 2001.Marick Press Reading Series in Celebration of poetry month is a free admission event.
 

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The Blue City
Gematria Complete
The Country of Loneliness

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