Sapodilla

In Sapodilla , Michael Rothenberg takes us from a car submerged in the Everglades through suburban streets to a cosmic place high above the earth. This book of discreet, yet interconnected images reads like a sensual, spiritual, savvy memoir. In snapshot verses, the poet shepherds us along on a murky and humid nostalgic romp. Rothenberg is a master of juxtaposition, combining and redistributing the personal and the universal in a way that becomes transformative for the reader. With this poet as your guide, you too, will find yourself « addicted to euphoria ».

Lisa Vihos - poetry and arts editor, Stoneboat Literary Journal

Michael Rothenberg is a poet, editor and publisher of the online literary magazine Big Bridge, www.bigbridge.org and co-founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, www.100tpc.org .

His most recent books include Unhurried Vision (La Alameda / University of New Mexico Press) , Indefinite Détention : A Dog Story (Ekstasis Editions-Canada / Shabda Press-USA) and Murder (Paper Press). A collection of his poetic journals , Drawing The Shade, will be published by Dos Madres Press in 2016. He is also the author of the eco-spy novel Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press).

His editorial work includes several volumes in the Penguin Poets sériés  : Overdme 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.