Posts tagged "Jerome Rothenberg"
Reading For Aimé Césaire’s Soleil Cou Coupé/Solar Throat Slashed
[ Wednesday, October 19, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Césaire (1913–2008), published Soleil cou coupé (Solar Throat Slahsed), a collection of 72 French surrealist poems imbibed with representations of Africa as a mythical homeland, in 1948. His work advanced a deeper understanding of the black diaspora and the colonized condition of Caribbean people. Wesleyan University Press recently issued the only bilingual edition of this [...]
Reading Report: Alison Knowles & Jerome Rothenberg
Two old friends came together to give very different presentations on February 20th, 2008 at the church.
Alison Knowles gave us “North Water Song,” a mesmerizing duet for voice and dancer, to the accompaniment of bell-like chords on electric guitar and occasional recorded tones played on the shakuhachi, more landscape elements than music. Landscape was to [...]
