Poets & Writers, UA Poetry Center
Jerome Rothenberg performs a retrospective survey of his prolific body of work, beginning with poems written in the 1960s and continuing in chronological order. Most of the poems read here are collected in Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader (2013).
From White Sun Black Sun.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
From The Seven Hells of the Jigoku Zoshi. Differs slightly from published version.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
From Poland/1931. The poem's opening lines are read first in Yiddish, then in English. Differs slightly from published version.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
From That Dada Strain.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
From That Dada Strain.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
By Hugo Ball; performed by Jerome Rothenberg.
From That Dada Strain. Performed with a shaker.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
From A Seneca Journal.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
From Khurbn.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
From A Book of Witness.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
From A Book of Witness.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
From A Book of Concealments.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
From The Jigoku Zoshi Hells: A Book of Autovariations.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
Differs slightly from published version.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
Shortened from published version.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2013.
A Seneca song/sound poem without words by Richard Johnny John. Performed with a shaker.