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Pre-Faces is a statement of aesthetic theory by Jerome Rothenberg, a literary critic. Rothenberg discusses the goals of oral poetry and applies his theories to a selection of pieces.... More

Lying behind the present gathering is a sense that the most radical and experimental works of our time--in poetry and across the arts--belong to a continuity that stretches back two centuries and more, along with a presentiment of the dark turn the world has again taken in the new century and millen... More

One of the most respected poets of the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance periods, David Meltzer has kept alive interest in the interface between jazz and poetry that exploded in the 1950s. This new edition of selected poems includes previously unpublished material and serves as a map to this very p... More

Transpoetic Exchange illuminates the poetic interactions between Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) from three perspectives--comparative, theoretical, and performative. The poem Blanco by Octavio Paz, written when he was ambassador to India in 1966, and Haroldo de Campos’ tra... More

The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records... More