That Dada Strain

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. 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.