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Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg
Poet, editor, and translator, Jerome Rothenberg has published over seventy books and pamphlets of poetry and is known for being at the forefront of American ethnopoetics...
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Blake's Babes: A Prophecy

 
by Jerome Rothenberg

1
infant encoil'd
inside a worm

2
The Throne of Mary

throne of wisdom 
on which
the babe sits

he holds 
a little sign marked
EGO

3
Pity

a flying horse
swoops down
a rider scoops
the babe up
in his arms

4
Eve

she gnaws the apple in
the serpent's mouth

5
Behold this Midnight Glory;
Worlds, on Worlds.

(Edward Young, Night Thoughts)






From Triptych. Copyright © 2007 by Jerome Rothenberg. Reprinted with permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
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