04/23/2024
Station Hill Press mourns the passing of the poet and translator Jerome Rothenberg (1931-2024), our friend, colleague, author, collaborator and guide through this maze of a world made of what is said. As Jerry writes, "A 'real' person in these terms is one who hasn’t forgotten what & where things are in relation to the Earth. Earth-rooted, he is royal too, not by precedence of birth, but insofar as he has & shares a knowledge of the realm. He has only to maintain a true eye for his surroundings & a contact with the Earth, to recognize himself as the inheritor of reality, of a more real way of life."
--from from PRE-FACE (1971), _Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas_