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Jerome Rothenberg, born in Brooklyn of Jewish parentage, is quite possibly the most eclectic & far-ranging American poet of his generation. The scope of his work embraces his Jewish roots, (in, for example, 'Poland/1931', 'an experimental attempt to explore & recover ancestral sources in the world of Jewish mystics, thieves & madmen'), the European avant- gardes of inter-war Europe ('That Dada Strain'), & the oral traditions of Native American cultures, most famously in his 'total translations' from the Navajo of the Horse Songs of Frank Mitchell. Returning in recent years to the subject of Judaism, he has been drawing on the kabbalistic traditions of 'gematria', & has written 'Khurbn', a poignant sequence on the holocaust which has been set to music by his long-term collaborator, the New York composer Charles Morrow.