Deep image is a term coined by U.S. poets Jerome Rothenberg and Robert Kelly in the second issue of the magazine Trobar in 1961.
[1][2] They used the term to describe poetry written by Diane Wakoski, Clayton Eshleman, and themselves.
In creating the term, Rothenberg was inspired by the Spanish cante jondo ("deep song"), especially the work of Federico García Lorca and by the symbolist theory of correspondences.
In general, deep image poems are resonant, stylized and heroic in tone.
The deep image group was short-lived in the manner that Kelly and Rothenberg defined.