Whether you have children or not Buy this book. If you have children read them the landscape poetry in here. They will sing them in their sleep. It will take them on magical journeys to happy places and you also.

I just started browsing through a book of his poems in spanish one day and loved them, but my spanish is marginal. This has the spanish poems side by side with english translations, many of which I don't really like because they do things like switch words and lines and take a little too much freedom and change the spirit of the poem, but that's okay. You can read the spanish, read the english, and see exactly what has been changed, but the beauty is in the spanish ones, and though his vocabulary is large, yours doesn't really have to be to appreciate the sound and sight of these poems in spanish. I love many of the sonnets, plus the king of harlem, which reminds me of HCE from Finnegans Wake, this character that becomes the landscape itself, "after walking", and many others from the poet in new york. I've just been getting into some spanish poets after reading some st john of the cross and seeing what types of flows and life can be infused into words in this language, and these dark, bloody grimy oozes of language have had me high for weeks.

Brilliant, emotions of positive and negative are tasted in this work

I was introduced to this book by a fiction writing teacher to whom I'll always be grateful. It's a fresh, ingenious selection of ritual and sacred poetry from around the world, translated with irreverence and raw attitude. If you're used to the vague New Age-isms of what usually gets thought of as "ritual" and "sacred," pick this up and get a jolt--Rothenberg finds incredibly powerful language in places where it wouldn't occur to most people to look, and he's not afraid of crudeness and hilarity. Amazing stuff. A friend of mine has worn out copies of both the first edition and this one, and I don't blame her.

Back in the 1970s I discovered this book. It became my companion. Its rich poetry, its multitudes of rituals and images have inspired my batiks and paintings for the past thirty years. What variety and life!

As we begin to see this earth suffer the effects of our presence here, these poems -with roots in every continent- speak together of this planet as a sacred place. One perhaps we might still come to treat well. Read a few aloud, sit in your garden this spring and read a Navajo corn song, stir, stir ... This is well researched, carefully and lovingly translated; it should accompany any studies of native cultures worldwide.

This book measures the substance of meaning and relates its design, in the context of narrative associations and fixtures. The Book, Spiritual Instrument - is a truth book, a way we should think about writting and exploring language in the context of our lives. Explore it.

This book measures the substance of meaning and relates its design, in the context of narrative associations and fixtures. The Book, Spiritual Instrument - is a truth book, a way we should think about writting and exploring language in the context of our lives. Explore it.

At a time when poetry was politics and politics poetry and both politics and poetry were challenging visual and theatrical nerve endings, Nezval combined his energy and intellilgence into a new combination of images that released the comic imagination to play tricks on every possible expectation the reader may have. Nezval is to this day the representative of the legions of Czech artists, photographers and writers who have remained unknown until recently. This translation is the first in English.

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A Paradise Of Poets: New Poems & Translations is a new collection of collage, visual improvisation, and translated poetry inspired by poets and artists that Jerome Rothenberg (himself a renowned poet) has personally known or who have somehow touched his life: Nakahara Chuya, Jackson Mac Low, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Garcia Larca, Kurt Schwitters, and Vitezslav Nezval. The Treasures of Dunhuang (2000 Buddhas): a faceless buddha/a black buddha/buddhas with silver mustaches/& chin hairs/three transvestite buddhas/buddha with heads/around his head---/dozens of whirling heads/2000 buddhas/crouching buddha--/slits for eyes--/looks sleepy/a buddha with a dozen faces/& a thousand hands with eyes/buddha holds a fern--/he wears a scabbard/& the scabbard grows a hand/rays stream from buddha's eyes/--or tears/eyes wide in terror/open anguished mouth with fangs/he holds a dish with flaming eyes/but haloed/can this be buddha too?/think buddha/starving buddha/sitting hand to chin/& smiling.

Like his Merz collages, Schwitters' poems take dissociated elements and glue them to together to make an aesthetically pleasing whole. As an artist and a writer Schwitters has the supreme ability to create beauty from cast-off fragments, using them to his own designs of witty word-play and absurd juxtaposition. Fantasy abounds and is mixed with advertisements, fragments of conversation, and themes of desire. In both his writings and his collages he sought to "erase the boundaries between the arts." Usually only known for "Anna Blume", Schwitters was an avid writer and this book collects his absurdist plays, nonsensical proses (sic), essays about his life and work (and Dada, poetry, and language), and over 100 of his unique poems. Of all the Dada literature (perhaps excluding Arp), his is the most pleasing and re-readable. Unfortuately some of his German punning and word-play is lost in translation, but can be seen in works that were originally written in English. Never before has nonsense been so emotionally charged or touching (and lets not leave out humorous and outrageous). This is the best collection of Schwitters' work in English that I have come across. Highly recommended.

I first purchased this book of poems 12 years ago, and I have treasured it ever since. Rothenberg is without a doubt one of the great late-20th-Century poetic innovators writing in English. In this collection, we are presented with verbal collages drawing on traditional Jewish folklore and mysticism, fragments of a world eventually wiped out; ancestral memories as personal as a series of black-and-white photographs. A must read.

I first ran across this anthology by accident in Evans Library on the Texas A&M University campus. Since then I have been reading the poets included in "Revolution". Rothenberg's anthology is a must read for anyone interested in avant garde poetry from 1914-1945 and beyond. Rothenberg's introduction to "Revolution" not only provides a lucid introduction to the anthology, but also provides a good place from which to begin to approach the rich poetry of the avant garde that he collects in his later 2 volume "Poems for the Millenium". I haven't found a better introduction to the avant garde tradition than "Revolution". I'm excited that I'll finally be able to add it to my personal library.

The reissue of this this collection of excerpts from the secret Rabbinic tradition merits the attention of anyone interested in genuine as opposed to "new-age" or "pop" Kabbalah in English. No other volume contains so diverse and tasty a sampling. These writings can be recomended for their awe inspiring poetic merit alone, but also provide much grist for the mills of the most serious mystical practitioners. The editors published poetry, and the recordings of his 1960s band "Serpent Power" mark him as an interesting and genuine seeker of truth. "Secret Garden" celebrates his return to his roots. The difficult material is treated with the respect that it deserves. Read this now. Study it for the rest of your life, and then some.