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

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2000
Contributors Editor: Jerome Rothenberg
Editor: Steven Clay
Language
Number of Pages
537 pp.
Publisher
Granary Book
City
New York, NY
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ISBN
9781887123297
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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