{"product_id":"triptych-poland-1931-khurbn-the-burning-babe-9780811216920","title":"Triptych: Poland\/ 1931, Khurbn, the Burning Babe","description":"For the last half of the twentieth century into the new millennium, no other American poet has been as deeply engaged in the opening of the poem (its boundaries and its possibilities) as Jerome Rothenberg. As editor, translator, essayist, performer, groundbreaking anthologist, one of the founding figures of enthnopoetics, and most significantly, as poet, Rothenberg has remapped the art against the grain of a single \"great tradition.\" Reminiscent of H.D.'s \u003cem\u003eTrilogy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTriptych\u003c\/em\u003e assembles three long serial poems into one multilayered sacred text. Like Kafka's \u003cem\u003eAmerica\u003c\/em\u003e, Calvino's \u003cem\u003eEuphemia\u003c\/em\u003e, and Babel's \u003cem\u003eOdessa\u003c\/em\u003e, Rothenberg's \u003cem\u003ePoland in Poland\/1931\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1974, is a \"poland stuffed with poland \/ brought in the imagination.\" Fifteen years later, Poland materializes into \u003cem\u003eKhurbn\u003c\/em\u003e (a Yiddish word meaning destruction, holocaust, human disaster), a poem summoned from the author's visit to his ancestral town, Ostrow-Mazowiecka, and the confrontation with his family's annihilation--including an uncle who killed himself--during World War II. \"Allowing my uncle's khurbn to speak through me...\" the author writes, \"the poems are the clearest message I have ever gotten about why I write poetry.\" And now in 2006, \u003cem\u003eThe Burning Babe\u003c\/em\u003e rises out of the furnace of khurbn, \"reaching through the ruins \/ for a place to soar\"....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811216920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.34w x 0.54d","brand":"Jerome Rothenberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935537762485,"sku":"9780811216920","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c1ca7044-1199-4b9b-9182-c868c61a0643.jpg?v=1688488913","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/triptych-poland-1931-khurbn-the-burning-babe-9780811216920","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}