Jerome Rothenberg is a respected poet, translator of poetry, and editor whose name is often linked with that of another New York-based poet, Robert Kelly, in connection with the deep-image movement of the late 1950s. Rejecting the objective image of the Imagist poets, Rothenberg coined the term deep image to describe a concrete detail drawn from the poet's unconscious that operates in a context of powerful feelings and evokes a similar context in the reader when it appears in an imaginatively conceived poem; in his words, the deep image is "an exploration of the unconscious region of the mind in such a way that the unconscious is speaking to the unconscious." Rothenberg's interest in reestablishing forms of visionary poetry for the modern world has made him a leader in recent efforts to preserve and learn from ancient and primitive cultures. In addition, he is associated with the small-press...