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Title: A Paradise of Poets: New Poems and Translations by Jerome Rothenberg ISBN: 0-8112-1427-3 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Summary: A collage of visual improvisation and translated poetry.
Comment: A Paradise Of Poets: New Poems & Translations is a new collection of collage, visual improvisation, and translated poetry inspired by poets and artists that Jerome Rothenberg (himself a renowned poet) has personally known or who have somehow touched his life: Nakahara Chuya, Jackson Mac Low, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Garcia Larca, Kurt Schwitters, and Vitezslav Nezval. The Treasures of Dunhuang (2000 Buddhas): a faceless buddha/a black buddha/buddhas with silver mustaches/& chin hairs/three transvestite buddhas/buddha with heads/around his head---/dozens of whirling heads/2000 buddhas/crouching buddha--/slits for eyes--/looks sleepy/a buddha with a dozen faces/& a thousand hands with eyes/buddha holds a fern--/he wears a scabbard/& the scabbard grows a hand/rays stream from buddha's eyes/--or tears/eyes wide in terror/open anguished mouth with fangs/he holds a dish with flaming eyes/but haloed/can this be buddha too?/think buddha/starving buddha/sitting hand to chin/& smiling.