A Poem of Miracles

by Jerome Rothenberg

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

“In the pages of a Rothenberg book - the poems as much as the anthologies - the world has a coherence. Perhaps this coherence is false... but we cannot deny that Rothenberg, as so few others, has managed to construct a world.”
— Eliot Weinberger

For us, Jerome Rothenberg played (and plays) the role Picasso and Braque did for the painters, and Leiris and Bataille later for the French poets.... He is a great figure, who stands above and beyond the schools and tendentiousnesses of poetics: ...a body of work that exhibits what I suddenly realize is an ethical purity, a touchstone for the genuine.”
— Robert Kelly