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<div>The Germ and the Poetic Research Bloc present:<br>
<br>
Jerome Rothenberg & Walter K. Lew<br>
<br>
Sunday, February 23 at 4pm at Dawson's Book Shop!<br>
<br>
***<br>
Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet and the author of
over<br>
sixty books of poetry and a number of breakthrough anthologies
of</div>
<div>experimental and traditional poetries (<i>Technicians of the
Sacred</i>,<i> Shaking</i></div>
<div><i>the Pumpkin</i>,<i> Poems for the Millennium</i>,
etc.). He was a founding figure of<br>
ethnopoetics as a combination of poetic practice and theory, and he
has been<br>
a longtime practitioner of poetry performance in frequent
collaborations<br>
with performers like Bertram Turetzky and Charlie Morrow and with
groups</div>
<div>like the Living Theater and the Westdeutscher Rundfunk
(Cologne). <i> The Lorca</i></div>
<div><i>Variations</i> works with a redistribution of vocabulary from
Rothenberg's<br>
translations of the great Spanish modernist poet, Federico García
Lorca,</div>
<div>while<i> That Dada Strain</i> starts as a tribute to the Dada
poets of Europe, who<br>
were instrumental in opening up new forms of creativity while
debunking<br>
older forms of artistic repression. The occurence of Dada in
the midst of<br>
the first world war and the martyrdom of Lorca at the time of the
Spanish<br>
Civil War and Great American Depression are also crucial to a reading
of</div>
<div>these works. <i> A Book of Witness</i>, Jerome Rothenberg's
twelfth book of poems<br>
from New Directions, will be published in April<br>
</div>
<div>Walter K. Lew's most recent book is<i> Treadwinds: Poems and
Intermedia Texts</i></div>
<div>(Wesleyan U. Press, 2002) Earlier books include<i> Excerpts
from: DIKTH DIKTE,</i></div>
<div><i>for</i> DICTEE<i> (1982)</i> (Yeul Eum Sa, 1992), a critical
artist's book on the work of Theresa</div>
<div>Hak Kyung Cha,<i> Kôri: The Beacon Anthology of Korean
American Fiction</i>,</div>
<div>co-edited with Heinz Insu Fenkl (Beacon, 2001),<i> Crazy Melon
and Chinese Apple:</i></div>
<div><i>The Poems of Frances Chung</i> (Wesleyan, 2000), and the
acclaimed Asian</div>
<div>North American poetry anthology<i> Premonitions</i> and<i>
Muae</i> 1 (both published in</div>
<div>1995). Formerly a TV news and documentary producer on events in
Korea, Lew</div>
<div>was the founding editor of the small press Kaya Production and
has staged his</div>
<div>own multimedia performance pieces for the Los Angeles Festival
and Walker Art Center.</div>
<div>He is currently working on a translation with commentary of the
selected works of the</div>
<div>Korean avantgarde author Yi Sang (1910-1937). He has taught at
several universities, including Brown and Cornell.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>About<i> Treadwinds:</i></div>
<div><i><br></i></div>
<div><i>"Treadwinds</i> opens new paths...by integrating visual,
semantic, and sound poetry to articulate a simultaneously resonant
and dissonant intercultural aesthetic." --Maria Damon, author
of<i> The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard
Poetry</i></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>"This long-awaited collection does not disappoint. The
poems ripple with startling images and sounds and, ah!--with
heart." --Kimiko Hahn, author of<i> Mosquito and Ant</i></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>"Editor and collagist, movieteller and translator, Lew is
one of our most precious cultural resources. These wondrous fragments
culled from nearly a quarter century of work are his multifaceted
talents at their most finely honed." --Alvin Lu, author
of<i> The Hell Screens</i></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>***</div>
<div>Doors open at 4. Readings at 4:30.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Dawson's Book Shop is located at 535 N. Larchmont Blvd between
Beverly Blvd<br>
and Melrose Blvd in the Larchmont district south of Hollywood, CA.<br>
Bookstore Tel: 213-469-2186<br>
<br>
Readings are open to all. $3 donation requested for poets/venue.<br>
<br>
Call Andrew at 310.446.8162 x233 for more info.<br>
<br>
<br>
The series continues:<br>
<br>
MARCH 16: Rachel Levitsky (NYC), Dan Machlin (NYC) &
Franklin Bruno (LA)<br>
<br>
APRIL 4-6: French-American Magazine Conference at USC<br>
(http://www.usc.edu/isd/publications/now/<span
></span>stories/262.html)</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>APRIL 20: Ryoko Sekiguchi (Paris) & Abdellatif Laabi
(Morocco): to be</div>
<div>confirmed</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>MAY 18: George Albon (SF) & Daniel Tiffany (LA)</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>JUNE 1: Jena Osman (Philadelphia) & E. Tracy Grinnell
(NYC)</div>
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