[KS] J. Rothenberg & Walter K. Lew Reading Sunday 2/23 in L.A.

[Walter K. Lew]

The Germ and the Poetic Research Bloc present:

Jerome Rothenberg & Walter K. Lew

Sunday, February 23 at 4pm at Dawson's Book Shop!

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Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet and the author of over
sixty books of poetry and a number of breakthrough anthologies of
experimental and traditional poetries (Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking
the Pumpkin, Poems for the Millennium, etc.).  He was a founding figure of
ethnopoetics as a combination of poetic practice and theory, and he has been
a longtime practitioner of poetry performance in frequent collaborations
with performers like Bertram Turetzky and Charlie Morrow and with groups
like the Living Theater and the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Cologne).  The Lorca
Variations works with a redistribution of vocabulary from Rothenberg's
translations of the great Spanish modernist poet, Federico García Lorca,
while That Dada Strain starts as a tribute to the Dada poets of Europe, who
were instrumental in opening up new forms of creativity while debunking
older forms of artistic repression.  The occurence of Dada in the midst of
the first world war and the martyrdom of Lorca at the time of the Spanish
Civil War and Great American Depression are also crucial to a reading of
these works.  A Book of Witness, Jerome Rothenberg's twelfth book of poems
from New Directions, will be published in April

Walter K. Lew's most recent book is Treadwinds: Poems and Intermedia Texts
(Wesleyan U. Press, 2002) Earlier books include Excerpts from: DIKTH DIKTE,
for DICTEE (1982) (Yeul Eum Sa, 1992), a critical artist's book on 
the work of Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha, Kôri: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction,
co-edited with Heinz Insu Fenkl (Beacon, 2001), Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple:
The Poems of Frances Chung (Wesleyan, 2000), and the acclaimed Asian
North American poetry anthology Premonitions and Muae 1 (both published in
1995). Formerly a TV news and documentary producer on events in Korea, Lew
was the founding editor of the small press Kaya Production and has staged his
own multimedia performance pieces for the Los Angeles Festival and 
Walker Art Center.
He is currently working on a translation with commentary of the 
selected works of the
Korean avantgarde author Yi Sang (1910-1937). He has taught at 
several universities, including Brown and Cornell.

About Treadwinds:

"Treadwinds opens new paths...by integrating visual, semantic, and 
sound poetry to articulate a simultaneously resonant and dissonant 
intercultural aesthetic." --Maria Damon, author of The Dark End of 
the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry

"This long-awaited collection does not disappoint. The poems ripple 
with startling images and sounds and, ah!--with heart." --Kimiko 
Hahn, author of Mosquito and Ant

"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 The Hell Screens

***
Doors open at 4. Readings at 4:30.

Dawson's Book Shop is located at 535 N. Larchmont Blvd between Beverly Blvd
and Melrose Blvd in the Larchmont district south of Hollywood, CA.
Bookstore Tel: 213-469-2186

Readings are open to all. $3 donation requested for poets/venue.

Call Andrew at 310.446.8162 x233 for more info.


The series continues:

MARCH 16:  Rachel Levitsky (NYC), Dan Machlin (NYC) & Franklin Bruno (LA)

APRIL 4-6:  French-American Magazine Conference at USC
(http://www.usc.edu/isd/publications/now/stories/262.html)

APRIL 20:  Ryoko Sekiguchi (Paris) & Abdellatif Laabi (Morocco): to be
confirmed

MAY 18:  George Albon (SF) & Daniel Tiffany (LA)

JUNE 1:  Jena Osman (Philadelphia) & E. Tracy Grinnell (NYC)
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