ROTHENBERG, Jerome

Initially a moderately radical and prolific poet, Rothenberg necessarily became an editor, first of the literary periodicals Poems from the Floating World (1960–64) and some/thing (1965–68), then of book-length collections that were designed to create new taste with mostly unfamiliar materials, rather than, like most anthologies, to clean up on established reputations. The purpose of Technicians of the Sacred (1968), subtitled A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania, was opening...