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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 has been redesigned and expanded, featuring 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 Vicuña
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.
