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Triptych: Poland/ 1931, Khurbn, the Burning Babe
The key book by the internationally celebrated poet with the only Polish ghetto-hassidic-cowboy and Indian American comic voice (Robert Duncan) in history.

For the last half of the twentieth century into the new millennium, no other American poet has been as deeply engaged in the opening of the poem (its boundaries and its possibilities) as Jerome Rothenberg. As editor, translator, essayist, performer, groundbreaking anthologist, one of the founding figures of enthnopoetics, and most significantly, as poet, Rothenberg has remapped the art against the grain of a single “great tradition.” Reminiscent of H.D.’s Trilogy, Triptych assembles three long serial poems into one multilayered sacred text. Like Kafka’s America, Calvino’s Euphemia, and Babel’s Odessa, Rothenberg’s Poland in Poland/1931, first published in 1974, is a “poland stuffed with poland / brought in the imagination.” Fifteen years later, Poland materializes into Khurbn (a Yiddish word meaning destruction, holocaust, human disaster), a poem summoned from the author’s visit to his ancestral town, Ostrow-Mazowiecka, and the confrontation with his family’s annihilation––including an uncle who killed himself––during World War II. “Allowing my uncle’s khurbn to speak through me…” the author writes, “the poems are the clearest message I have ever gotten about why I write poetry.” And now in 2006, The Burning Babe rises out of the furnace of khurbn, “reaching through the ruins / for a place to soar”….
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Triptych: Poland/ 1931, Khurbn, the Burning Babe
The key book by the internationally celebrated poet with the only Polish ghetto-hassidic-cowboy and Indian American comic voice (Robert Duncan) in history.

For the last half of the twentieth century into the new millennium, no other American poet has been as deeply engaged in the opening of the poem (its boundaries and its possibilities) as Jerome Rothenberg. As editor, translator, essayist, performer, groundbreaking anthologist, one of the founding figures of enthnopoetics, and most significantly, as poet, Rothenberg has remapped the art against the grain of a single “great tradition.” Reminiscent of H.D.’s Trilogy, Triptych assembles three long serial poems into one multilayered sacred text. Like Kafka’s America, Calvino’s Euphemia, and Babel’s Odessa, Rothenberg’s Poland in Poland/1931, first published in 1974, is a “poland stuffed with poland / brought in the imagination.” Fifteen years later, Poland materializes into Khurbn (a Yiddish word meaning destruction, holocaust, human disaster), a poem summoned from the author’s visit to his ancestral town, Ostrow-Mazowiecka, and the confrontation with his family’s annihilation––including an uncle who killed himself––during World War II. “Allowing my uncle’s khurbn to speak through me…” the author writes, “the poems are the clearest message I have ever gotten about why I write poetry.” And now in 2006, The Burning Babe rises out of the furnace of khurbn, “reaching through the ruins / for a place to soar”….
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Triptych: Poland/ 1931, Khurbn, the Burning Babe

Triptych: Poland/ 1931, Khurbn, the Burning Babe

Triptych: Poland/ 1931, Khurbn, the Burning Babe

Triptych: Poland/ 1931, Khurbn, the Burning Babe

Overview

The key book by the internationally celebrated poet with the only Polish ghetto-hassidic-cowboy and Indian American comic voice (Robert Duncan) in history.

For the last half of the twentieth century into the new millennium, no other American poet has been as deeply engaged in the opening of the poem (its boundaries and its possibilities) as Jerome Rothenberg. As editor, translator, essayist, performer, groundbreaking anthologist, one of the founding figures of enthnopoetics, and most significantly, as poet, Rothenberg has remapped the art against the grain of a single “great tradition.” Reminiscent of H.D.’s Trilogy, Triptych assembles three long serial poems into one multilayered sacred text. Like Kafka’s America, Calvino’s Euphemia, and Babel’s Odessa, Rothenberg’s Poland in Poland/1931, first published in 1974, is a “poland stuffed with poland / brought in the imagination.” Fifteen years later, Poland materializes into Khurbn (a Yiddish word meaning destruction, holocaust, human disaster), a poem summoned from the author’s visit to his ancestral town, Ostrow-Mazowiecka, and the confrontation with his family’s annihilation––including an uncle who killed himself––during World War II. “Allowing my uncle’s khurbn to speak through me…” the author writes, “the poems are the clearest message I have ever gotten about why I write poetry.” And now in 2006, The Burning Babe rises out of the furnace of khurbn, “reaching through the ruins / for a place to soar”….

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780811216920
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 06/17/2007
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jerome Rothenberg was born in New York City in 1931. New Directions publishes ten books of his poetry and essays. His anthologies include Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and the two-volume Poems for the Millennium. Rothenberg has been the recipient of many honors, including an American Book Award, two PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Awards, and two PEN Center USA West Translation Awards. In 2001 he was elected to the World Academy of Poetry (UNESCO).
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