Free Verse: Jerome Rothenberg and the Poetry of Picasso

Few people realize that in addition to being one of the 20th centurys most influential painters, Pablo Picasso wrote a body of poetry that André Breton described as an intimate journal of the feelings and the senses such as never was kept before. Collected in The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and Other Poems, this writing is indeed Picasso at his erotic and experimental finest. Hear Burial coeditor Jerome Rothenberg present these riveting translations of Picassos poetry as well as his own acclaimed verse, which is deeply obsessed with modernism in all its manifestations.

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This is an expressive reading of Pablo Picasso's "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and Other Poems" by the translator/poet Jerome Rothenberg, who reads from one of the most interesting poetic works of the 20th Century. Pablo Picasso uses the technique of "poeme dechire," or collage poem, to create an unpunctuated sentence structure which conveys the complexity of his artistic vision.