Lorca Variations: Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811212533)

As poet and experimental translator, pioneer in performance poetry and ethnopoetics, Jerome Rothenberg for over three decades has been a literary radical and prominent influence in the American avant-garde. Among his own earliest sources was the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whose "composition through images ... opened my mind to the contemporary poetry of Europe & of something possibly older & deeper that would surface for us in America as well." Having recently returned to translating Lorca, Rothenberg began to appropriate and rearrange items of Lorca's vocabulary and to compose a series of poems of his own that "both are & aren't mine, both are & aren't Lorca." As an original work, The Lorca Variations are, as he describes them, "a way of coming full circle into a discovery that began with Lorca & for which he has stood with certain others as a guide & constant fellow-traveler."

Author: Jerome Rothenberg
ISBN-10: 081121253X
ISBN-13: 9780811212533
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 10/17/1993
Pages: 90
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.41w x 0.33d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/13/1993