[Poetry reading at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, March 3, 1993] / Jerome Rothenberg.

Recorded at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo on March 3, 1993 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.

Dennis Tedlock introduces poet Jerome Rothenberg using elegies he wrote in his honor based on their friendship and collaboration on the magazine Alcheringa. Tedlock closes the ten minute introduction with a reading of Robert Duncan's impression of Rothenberg's book, Poland 1931. Rothenberg performs his poetry. He discusses his interest in ethnomusicology and ethnopoetics in relation to time he has spent in Salamanca, N.Y. with the Seneca Indians. He discusses Lorca and reads four poems in his honor. He closes with poems about his family's personal experience during the Holocaust in Poland.

Jerome Rothenberg.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1993

Sound recording

PCR280

The first 17 horse blessing song --A poem of beavers --That dada strain --Caravana, caravan --The saintly dada --Lorca's Spain: an homage --Lorca variations 7 --Lorca variationss 15 --Lorca variations 33.from Khurbn:In the dark word, Khurbn --Dos oysleydikn (The emptying) --Dos geshray (The scream). --Third station, Buchenwald --Twelfth station --Seventh station: Dachau --Ninth station: Treblinka --Eleventh station --Thirteenth station --from Khurbn:Peroration for a lost town.

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