This powerful new theoretical approach to analyzing urban housing problems and the policies designed to rectify them will be a vital resource for urban planners, developers, policymakers, and economists. The search for the roots of serious urban housing problems such as homelessness, abandonment, rent burdens, slums, and gentrification has traditionally focused on the poorest sector of the housing market. The findings set forth in this volume show that the roots of such problems lie in the relationships among different parts of the market—not solely within the lower-quality portion—though that is where problems are most dramatically manifested and housing reforms are myopically focused. The authors propose a new understanding of the market structure characterized by a closely interrelated array of quality submarkets. Their comprehensive models ground a unified theory that accounts for demand by both renters and owner occupants, supply by owners of existing dwellings, changes in the stock of housing due to conversions and new construction, and interactions across submarkets.

The Maze of Urban Housing Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy

Business & Money

ROTHENBERG, Jerome

Galster, George C.

Butler, Richard V.

Pitkin, John R.

Economics

University of Chicago Press

Essays attempt to develop a theory of poetry that includes the works of primitive as well as developed societies, and examine American Indian, African, and Asian poetry forms

Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics

Literature & Fiction

Rothenberg, Diane

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania

Hailed by Robert Creeley as “both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight” and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg’s landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired generations of poets, artists, musicians, and other readers, exposing them to the multiple possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Juxtaposing “primitive” and archaic works of art from many cultures with each other and with avant-garde and experimental poetry, Jerome Rothenberg contends that literature extends beyond specific temporal and geographic boundaries, while acting as a retort to those who would call that larger humanity into question. A half-century since its original publication, this revised and expanded third edition provides readers with a wealth of newly gathered and translated texts from recently reinvigorated indigenous cultures, bringing the volume into the present and further extending the range and depth of what we recognize and read as poetry.

Literary

Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more. Beginning with a reassertion of the complexity of poetry among peoples long labeled “primitive” and “savage,” many recent poets have sought to base a new poetics over the fullest range of human cultures. The attempt to define an ethnopoetics has been significantly connected with the most experimental and future-directed side of Romantic and modern poetry, both in the Western world and, increasingly, outside it. As a visionary poetics and as a politics, this complex redefinition of cultural and intellectual values has involved a rarely acknowledged collaboration between poets and scholars, who together have challenged the narrow view of literature that has excluded so many traditions. In this gathering, the Rothenbergs follow the idea of an ethnopoetics from predecessors such as Vico, Blake, Thoreau, and Tzara to more recent essays and manifestos by poets and social thinkers such as Olson, Eliade, Snyder, Turner, and Baraka. The themes range widely, from the divergence of oral and written cultures to the shaman as proto-poet and the reemergence of suppressed and rejected forms and images: the goddess, the trickster, and the “human universe.” The book’s three ethnographic sections demonstrate how various poetries are structured and composed, how they reflect meaning and worldview, and how they are performed in cultures where all art may be thought of as art-in-motion. Among the poetries discussed are the language of magic; West African drum language and poetry; the Huichol Indian language of reversals; chance operations in African divination poetry; picture-writings and action-writings from Australia and Africa; and American Indian sacred-clown dramas and traditional trickster narratives. The cumulative effect is a new reading of the poetic past and present—in the editors’ words, “a changed paradigm of what poetry was or now could come to be.”

Poland/1931

New Directions

1974 NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK SOFTCOVER

Poland, 1931

Poetry

A Seneca Journal

Biographies & Memoirs

A collection of experimental poems emphasizing the use of language are presented by the poet in what he views as a poetic journey through the new wilderness

Vienna Blood: Poetry

The title of Jerome Rothenberg's newest collection suggests jazz, blues, and above all the Dada movement in European art and poetry in the years immediately following World War I. "In my own world," he explains in his pre-face to That Dada Strain, "the Dada fathers who inhabit the opening poems of this book are necessary figures, & to summon them up along with their legends is no more erudite than to summon up Moses or George Washington or Harpo or Karl Marx, & so on." For Rothenberg, the Dada connection, his looking back to Dada founders Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, and Francis Picabia, is especially apt, emphasizing as it does a "strain" that is echoed and replayed throughout all his work, whether it be oral poetry, ethnopoetics, translation, or the assembling of innovative anthologies.Following the title section is "Imaginal Geographies," a group of poems that draw largely on the poet's private self, his own language and perceptions, in much the same way that the Dada poets recorded associations between images for which no key was readily available. In the third and final section, "Altar Pieces," Rothenberg attempts, as he says, "to return to the world in which human beings still suffer both the loss of bread & words."Jerome Rothenberg's previous books of poetry with New Directions include Poland/1931 (1974), Poems for the Game of Silence (1975), A Seneca Journal (1978), and, most recently, Vienna Blood (1980). Pre-Faces & Other Writings, his first collection of poetics, was awarded the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for 1982.

That Dada Strain: Poetry

From Library Journal This fine volume contains poems from Rothenberg's last four books, plus a few new poems. As Rothenberg contends, it helps the reader understand his recent work as "the thread of a single long poem or sequence." We see the progression from the imaginary ancestor who becomes "Cokboy" in Poland/1931 ( LJ 9/15/74) to the Baal Shem of A Seneca Journal ( LJ 3/1/78), who leaves "the light of Torah/ & becomes/ any old animal inside/ the sacred wood." In later poems Rothenberg extends his ancestral search until it locates him within a literary tradition. It is his genius that the reverence one expects from ancestor worship is here replaced by vivid images of procreation. This intelligent selection contains Rothenberg's longest, most memorable works. Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor "Soho Weekly News," New YorkCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

New Selected Poems, 1970-1985

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The Maze of Urban Housing Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy

Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics

Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania

Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics

Poland/1931

Poland, 1931

A Seneca Journal

Vienna Blood: Poetry

That Dada Strain: Poetry

New Selected Poems, 1970-1985