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Jerome Rothenberg (1931-2024) Poet, translator, anthologist. Jerome Rothenberg was born in New York City and died in Encinitas, California.

Full Name

Jerome Rothenberg

Locations

BronxBroomeCattaraugusNew York

Author's Timeline


1931

Birth

Jerome Dennis Rothenberg was born in New York City on December 11, 1931.

1930

Residence

Bronx County: As a child, Mr. Rothenberg lived in the Bronx, New York.

1952

Other Life Event

New York County: Mr. Rothenberg received a bachelor’s degree in literature from the City College of New York, in 1952.

1959

Literary Work

New Young German Poets
City Lights Books
Translations.

1960

Literary Work

White Sun Black Sun
Hawk's Well Press
Collection of poetry.

Late 1960s

Other Life Event

New York County: Mr. Rothenberg taught at the New School for Social Research in the late 1960s.

1968

Literary Work

Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries From Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania
Doubleday
Edited by Mr. Rothenberg.

1970

Literary Work

Poland/1931
Unicorn Press
Poetry.

1971

Literary Work

Poems For The Game Of Silence (1960-1970)
Dial Press
Collecction of poetry.

1972-1974

Residence

Cattaraugus County: Mr. Rothenberg lived with his family on the Seneca Nation reservation in Cattaraugus County from 1972-1974.

0000

Other Life Event

Broome County: Mr. Rothenberg taught for a time at the State University of New York at Binghamton, New York.

1978

Literary Work

A Seneca Journal
New Directions
0811206521 / 978-0811206525
Nonfiction.

1983

Literary Work

That Dada Strain: Poetry
New Directions
0811208605 / 978-0811208604
Collection of poetry.

1989

Literary Work

Khurbn and Other Poems
New Directions
0811211088 / 978-0811211086
Poetry.

1999

Literary Work

A Paradise of Poets: Poetry
New Directions
0811214273 / 978-0811214278
Collection of poetry.

2024

Literary Work

The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas From Origins to Present
University of California Press
0520303547 / 978-0520303546
Edited by Mr. Rothenberg and Javier Taboada.

2024

Death

Jerome Rothenberg died at his home in Encinitas, California, on April 21, 2024.

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