Table of Contents

THE PRE-FACES

Pre-Face (2017)
Pre-Face (1984)
Pre-Face (1967)

THE TEXTS

Origins & Namings
Visions & Spels
Death & Defeat

The Book of Events (I)

The Book of Events (II)

Africa

America

Asia

Europe & The Ancient Near East

Oceania

Survivals & Revivals

THE STATEMENTS

THE COMMENTARIES

POST-FACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

About the Author

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His more than ninety books include the multivolume Poems for the Millennium, coedited with Pierre Joris, Jeffrey Robinson, and John Bloomberg-Rissman. He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Reviews

"If there is anyone out there struggling to write lyrics, get your hands on this book; immerse yourselves in it, live inside it for a while, free your mind, and you will emerge brimming with ideas." 
*Nick Cave*