Indefinite Detention:A Dog Story by Michael Rothenberg
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Cover design by Terri Carrion
Author bio:
Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, editor and publisher of the online literary magazine Big Bridge, www.bigbridge.org and co-founder of the global poetry movement 100 Thousand Poets for Change, www.100tpc.org.
Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Rothenberg moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975 and co-founded Shelldance Orchid Gardens in Pacifica, which is dedicated to the cultivation of orchids and bromeliads. While in Pacifica, he helped lead local environmental actions that stopped major coastal developments that would destroy wildlife habitat.
His poems have been widely published in literary reviews such as Exquisite Corpse, Mudlark, Golden Handcuffs Review, Jacket, OR, Prague Literary Review, Sycamore Review, Tricycle, and Zyzzyva.
His books of poetry include Favorite Songs (Big Bridge Press), Man/Women with Joanne Kyger (Big Bridge Press), The Paris Journals (Fish Drum Press), Monk Daddy (Blue Press), Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press), Choose (Big Bridge Press), My Youth As A Train (Foothills Publishing), Murder (Paper Press Books), and he is the author of the eco-spy thrillerPunk Rockwell (Tropical Press).
Michael Rothenberg is also editor of several volumes in the Penguin Poets series: Overtime by Philip Whalen, As Ever by Joanne Kyger, David’s Copy by David Meltzer, and Way More West by Ed Dorn. He is also editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen published by Wesleyan University Press.
Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story is scheduled for publication in 2014 by both Shabda Press (USA) and Al Kotob Khan (Cairo, Egypt) in an Arab edition, translated by El Habib Louai.
Cover design by Terri Carrion
Author bio:
Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, editor and publisher of the online literary magazine Big Bridge, www.bigbridge.org and co-founder of the global poetry movement 100 Thousand Poets for Change, www.100tpc.org.
Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Rothenberg moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975 and co-founded Shelldance Orchid Gardens in Pacifica, which is dedicated to the cultivation of orchids and bromeliads. While in Pacifica, he helped lead local environmental actions that stopped major coastal developments that would destroy wildlife habitat.
His poems have been widely published in literary reviews such as Exquisite Corpse, Mudlark, Golden Handcuffs Review, Jacket, OR, Prague Literary Review, Sycamore Review, Tricycle, and Zyzzyva.
His books of poetry include Favorite Songs (Big Bridge Press), Man/Women with Joanne Kyger (Big Bridge Press), The Paris Journals (Fish Drum Press), Monk Daddy (Blue Press), Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press), Choose (Big Bridge Press), My Youth As A Train (Foothills Publishing), Murder (Paper Press Books), and he is the author of the eco-spy thrillerPunk Rockwell (Tropical Press).
Michael Rothenberg is also editor of several volumes in the Penguin Poets series: Overtime by Philip Whalen, As Ever by Joanne Kyger, David’s Copy by David Meltzer, and Way More West by Ed Dorn. He is also editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen published by Wesleyan University Press.
Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story is scheduled for publication in 2014 by both Shabda Press (USA) and Al Kotob Khan (Cairo, Egypt) in an Arab edition, translated by El Habib Louai.
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"Out of a seeming mist of in-the-moment observations Michael Rothenberg treats us to hawk-like swoops of intellect that land unerringly on startling insights. He gives us the world that hides from the world and does so with wit, compassion and an ease with technique that renders his poems both masterful and readable." - Robert Priest
"From under the Northern California Redwoods, Michael Rothenberg writes with an abundantly concerned and familiar voice, commenting freely about the world at large and matters at hand, keeping a sharp look at the aftershocks of reality in a future which happens to be 'now'. A delightful book for our times." - Joanne Kyger
"What luminous joy in Michael Rothenberg's poems! Even when handling the grim realities of war, his brilliant spirit lifts the poem into a kind of celebratory praise. And his dog sequence is Dog Zen wisdom with a twist of Marx Brothers thrown in. This is the rockin' dance of experience & imagination on a beam of light.
What a delight!" —Sam Hamill
Reviews
The Volta - http://www.thevolta.org/inreview-mainpage.html
Pacific Rim Review of Books - http://www.prrb.ca/articles/issue19-rothenberg.htm
Indefinite Detention by Michael Rothenberg, reviewed by Linda Rogers
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Indefinite Detention by Michael Rothenberg, reviewed by Eric Hoffman
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