Flower World Variations : A Sequence of Songs from the Yaqui Deer Dance

Rothenberg, Jerome; Cohen, Harold (ILT)

ISBN 10: 1946031135 / ISBN 13: 9781946031136

Published by The Operating System, 2017

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Title: Flower World Variations : A Sequence of ...

Publisher: The Operating System

Publication Date: 2017

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

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Synopsis:

Poetry. Art. California Interest. Native American Studies. Essay. Hybrid Genre. As part of the Glossarium: Unsilenced Texts series, The OS presents FLOWER WORLD VARIATIONS, a revised and expanded version of Jerome Rothenberg's variations on a set of traditional Yaqui Indian Deer Dance songs, with computer-generated drawings by Harold Cohen, one of our truly great pioneer computer artists. Originally published in a modest 1984 offset edition the book is newly enhanced in quality and features an updated introduction by Rothenberg and an excerpt from Cohen's writings on the nature of mark-making and meaning/metaphor over a wide range of times and cultures. As such it serves also as a memorial and tribute to Harold Cohen, whose recent passing it helps to commemorate.

"The process of translation is here re-imagined as a new wilderness by Jerome Rothenberg and Harold Cohen, in a multilayered composition of poems and computer generated drawings for the 'human / other-than-human worlds' originally composed by the Yaqui poets of Arizona. An oral masterpiece, rendered masterfully. A moment to rejoice!"—Cecilia Vicuņa

About the Author:

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet with over eighty books of poetry and twelve assemblages of traditional and avant- garde poetry such as FLOWER WORLD VARIATIONS, Technicians of the Sacred, and, with Pierre Joris and Jeffrey Robinson, Poems for the Millennium, volumes 1-3. Recent books of poems include Gematria Complete, Concealments & Caprichos, A CRUEL NIRVANA, A Poem of Miracles, and RETRIEVALS: UNCOLLECTED & NEW POEMS, 1955- 2010. His most recent big book is Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, co-edited with Heriberto Yepez, and he is now working on a global and historical anthology of outsider and subterranean poetry.