The Serpent and the Fireed. Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada The Serpent and the Fire breaks out of deeply entrenched models that limit American literature to work written in English within the present boundaries of the United States. Editors Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada gather vital pieces from all parts of the Western Hemisphere and the breadth of European and Indigenous languages within: a unique range of cultures and languages going back several millennia, an

Beaver eating so many hot dogs she explodes

Paul Auster)

As they converse about death and solitude

Nagels met rouwrandjes

" As Mallarme writes

Originally published in 1939

dispersed in the corners

As in Gold

The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with 'Face of Rhythm

waarin hij zijn pseudoniem laat vallen en vertelt wat de Shoah voor hem betekende

” or gnosis

as had been believed