Sapodilla

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.