Galician Nights
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Jerome Rothenberg is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, including Poems for the Game of Silence, Poland/1931, A Seneca Journal, Vienna Blood, That Dada Strain, New Selected Poems 1970 - 1985, Khurbn, The Lorca Variations, and, most recently, Seedings & Other Poems. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and several awards from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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