A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing

TitleA Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2000
Series EditorRothenberg, Jerome, Clay, Steven
Number of Pages537 pp.
PublisherGranary Book
CityNew York, NY
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781887123297
Annotation

Contents:
Poetics & Ethnopoetics of the Book & Writing / Jerome Rothenberg
from "the Book as Machine" / Steve McCaffery, bpNichol
Notation and the Art of Reading / Karl Young
from "the Poem as Icon-Reflections on Printing as a Fine Art" / William Everson
Book as Physical Object / Keith A. Smith
Material Page / Michael Davidson
My Life a Book / Anne Waldman
Edmond Jabes and the Question of the Book / Jacques Derrida
from Desire for a Beginning Dread of one Single End / Edmond Jabes
Opening of the Field -- from the Marriage of Heaven and Hell / William Blake
from "Introduction" to the Illuminated Blake / David V. Erdman
from "So Long" / Walt Whitman
These Flames and Generosities of the Heart: Emily Dickinson and the Illogic of Sumptuary Values / Susan Howe
From Mallarme's Le Livre / Richard Sieburth
Book to Come / Maurice Blanchot
from the Futurist Moment / Marjorie Perloff
La Prose Du Transsiberien (facsimile and foldout) / Blaise Cendrars, Sonia Delaunay
from Destruction of Syntax--Imagination Without Strings--Words-in-Freedom 1913 / F.T. Marinetti
from "Kruchonykh and the Manuscript Book" / Gerald Janecek
One, the Only Book / Velimir Khlebnikov
Phenomenon of Adolf Wolfli / John Maizels
Foreword to the Hundred Headless Woman by Max Ernst / Andre Breton
from the Hundred Headless Woman / Max Ernst
Boite-en-Valise / Marcel Duchamp
Spells and Gris-Gris / Agnes de la Beaumelle
Spell for Leon Fouks / Antonin Artaud
from "Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries)" / Jerome McGann
Book is as Old as Fire & Water -- Painted Book / Nezahualcoyotl
Writing in the Imagination of an Oral Poet / Henry Munn
Toward a Poetics of Polyphony and Translatability / Dennis Tedlock
Guruwari Designs / Nancy Munn
Libro Desierto/Desert Book / Cecilia Vicuna
from the Chinese art of Writing / Jean Francois Billeter
Written Face / Roland Barthes
Hyakunin Isshu: Between Power and Play, an Anthology in Translation / Toshi Ishihara, Linda Reinfeld
Novelty Books: Accent of Images and Words / Martha L. Carothers
from Tongues of Men and Angels / William J. Samarin
Books Within Books: Some Notes on the Kabbalah & the Sefer Yetsirah / David Meltzer
from Sefer Yetsirah / Anonymous
Celestial Alphabet Event / Jacques Gaffarel
from Conversations with Ogotemmeli / Marcel Griaule
On the Cult of Books / Jorge Luis Borges
from "Signs and Their Transmission: The Question of the Book in the New World" / Walter D. Mignolo
Book to Come -- from The Heart of a Humument / Tom Phillips
Artist's Book as Idea and Form / Johanna Drucker
Introduction to Books and Graphics / Dieter Roth
Books of Di[e]ter Rot[h] / Richard Hamilton
On the Book of Bean / Alison Knowles
O! / Jess
Notes on a Humument / Tom Phillips
Writers Forum--Life By 1000 Books / Lawrence Upton
from A Smell of Printing / Simon Cutts
Souvenir De Voyage / Ian Tyson
Words: An Environment / Allan Kaprow
When a Book is Not a Book / Thomas A. Vogler
Afterword to Little Sparta / Alec Finlay
from Little Sparta / Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robin Gillanders
Up to and Including Her Limits / Carolee Schneemann
Interpreting the "Kunstkammer" / Barbara Fahrner, Harriett Watts
from "Living History: Faith Ringgold's Rendezvous With the Twentieth Century" / Dan Cameron
from the French Collection, Part 1, #3: The Picnic at Giverny / Faith Ring Gold
Writing (Under- ) Sky: On Xu Bing's Tianshu / John Cayley
Art of Immemorability /1 Charles Bernstein