Theogony - Softcover

Rothschild, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930068409 ISBN 13: 9781930068407

Publisher: Subpress, 2009

Synopsis

Poetry. "It's heartening--a complete relief, in fact--to finally have a lengthy tome from Douglas Rothschild, a poet whose independence and observational precision are, for me, unparalleled within the art. Rothschild is a poet of emphasis, analysis, opinion, argument, outrage, anguish, personality, friendship and deep feeling. His walking, talking line, freer within its various formal constraints (Dug is a master of the long poem made of short poems) than any surface-of-the-moment, sounds like no one else. This is a book of tremendous clarity, and I'm grateful for its existence"--Anselm Berrigan.

About this title

About the Author

Douglas Rothschild's life has been one long miasma of failure, disappointment, coffee & overarching desire. Though he has not yet accomplished anything of note, Mr. Rothschild intends to continue on for some time yet. Some of this life, such as it is, has been chronicled in Bill Luoma's WORKS & DAYS & Jennifer Moxley's THE MIDDLE ROOM.

Review

One might argue that Rothschild s thesis in Theogony could be reduced to That which is not there is all that is the case. Although the book collects poems from as far back as 1997, it is a volume profoundly about the events of September 11, 2001 from the perspective of someone who lived in close proximity to the fallen towers. --Ron Silliman, Silliman's blog

My favorite book of poems for 2009 so far. And a long time a-coming. But finally here it is: as close as possible to a Douglas Rothschild Collected. The pleasure of Theogony starts in the hand: the square format, perfectly suited to the work, and the pleasant, solid, yet casual heft of its 210 pages. --Pierre Joris, Nomadics

Edition details

• Publisher: Subpress
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1930068409
• ISBN 13: 9781930068407
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 210