The recitation by Jerome Rothenberg of, Karawane, a poem by the Dada Founder Hugo Ball, was recorded by Francesco Cincotta in Curitiba, Brazil, in 2004 while touring Latin America with Cecilia Vicuña and Jerome Rothenberg.

This recital by Jerome Rothenberg of his poem,That Dada Strain, was recorded in Curitiba, Brazil, in the Autumn of 2004, when we were traveling in Latin America with Jerome and Cecilia Vicuña.

A Meditation on the Fourth of July

My country moves on.  Shot

Into another zone.  Her time has come.

Remember: once we were few against many.

Clay pawns stacked against staid lions

With only eloquence to combat red-forged

Steel.  Then the wilderness conformed. Took

The shape of our dreams.

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Performance Poetry on the Dunes north of Valparaiso Chile with Cecilia Vicuña and Jerome Rothenberg. Recorded October 2004.