Jerome Rothenberg, multiple award winning poet/translator/editor/essayist, is the author of over 80 volumes of published poetry, a dozen important books of translations, and ten groundbreaking anthologies of contemporary and traditional poetry, including Technicians of the Sacred and, with Pierre Joris and Jeffrey C. Robinson, the Poems for the Millenium series of books. President of Desolation & Other Poems comprise Rothenberg's writings over the last two years.