• critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 27 x 17 cm.
  • 537 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1887123296

A Book of the Book : Some Works and Projections About the Book and Writing

Jerome Rothenberg, Steven Clay

description

A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing breaks down into four sections: "Pre-faces" includes work by Rothenberg, Steve McCaffery & bp Nichol, Keith A. Smith, Michael Davidson, Anne Waldman, Jacques Derrida, Edmond Jabés (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop), among others; "The Opening of the Field" includes work by Gertrude Stein, William Blake, Susan Howe, Maurice Blanchot, Marjorie Perloff, André Breton and Jerome McGann among others; "The Book is as Old as Fire & Water" includes work on Guruwari designs, novelty books, pattern poetry, celestial alphabets among others, while "The Book to Come" presents work by Tom Phillips, Johanna Drucker, Alison Knowles, Charles Bernstein, Jess (a complete re-issue of his 1960 work O!), Ian Hamilton Finlay, Barbara Fahrner and much more.

Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and with a full color double-gate-fold facsimile of La Prose du Transsibérien by Sonia Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars. -- publisher's statement.

New York, NY: Granary Books,
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