Jerome Rothenberg (1931–2024) was an internationally celebrated poet, translator, anthologist, and performer, with over ninety books of poetry and twelve assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and the five-volume Poems for the Millennium. He was a founding figure of ethnopoetics as a combination of poetic practice and theory and was a longtime practitioner and theorist of poetry performance. Javier Taboada is a Mexican poet, translator, and anthologist currently working as Editorial Director of the Press at the Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla.

“Jewish lore, Amerindian poetics, ethnopoetics, contemporary world poetics, international sacred poetics . . . Jerome Rothenberg has certainly done me a favor in collecting specimens in the above categories and putting them in all our hands for immediate inspirational use.”—Allen Ginsberg

“Jerome Rothenberg is a DNA spaceman exploring the mammal caves of Now.”—Michael McClure

“Jerome Rothenberg is one of the truly contemporary American poets who has returned U.S. poetry to the mainstream of international modern literature. At the same time he is a true autochthon. Only here and now could have produced him—a swinging orgy of Martin Buber, Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and Sitting Bull. No one writing poetry today has dug deeper into the roots of poetry.”—Kenneth Rexroth