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The Book, Spiritual Instrument - Softcover

Rothenberg, Jerome

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9781887123082: The Book, Spiritual Instrument

Synopsis

By Jerome Rothenberg. Contributions by David Guss.

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Review

"Prefaced by Mallarm's famous dictum that 'everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book,' this spirited collection demonstrates the reverse as well: everything in the book exists in order to end up in the world. . . In a series of exemplary essays on, and demonstrations of, what might be called the ethnopoetics of the book, books from a wide range of cultural traditions are portrayed as radical extenders of form rather than neutral vessels of content. The result is a vision of books as laboratories for the invention and performance of perceptual systems: new worlds carved out of the wilderness of human thought and language." -- Charles Bernstein, Poet, Editor and David Gray, Professor of Poetry and Poetics, SUNY-Buffalo

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