The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present -- Jerome Rothenberg, Hardcover House & Home A book whose importance is

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The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present -- Jerome Rothenberg, Hardcover House & Home A book whose importance isJerome Rothenberg's final anthology an experiment in omnipoetics with Javier Taboada reaches into the deepest origins of the Americas, north and south, to redefine America and its poetries 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