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A book of witness : spells & gris-gris / Jerome Rothenberg.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.O86 B66 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931-2024.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 118 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, [2003, 2002]
- Summary:
- A landmark collection by one of America's leading avant-gardists. A Book of Witness: Spells & Gris-Gris is Jerome Rothenberg's passage from one centuryone millenniumto another. Of the one hundred poems that comprise the book, the first half were written in 1999, the second in the two years that followed. But far more than a marker of era-shifting, it is a collection that reestablishes the primacy of the poetic "I," not in the sense of a confessional, personal voice, but of the grammatical first person as both a singular witness and conduit for othersa kind of prophecy. Often incantatory, the poems in A Book of Witness are a reaffirmation of self in the face of history's darknesses, a shout for life against an indifferent universe.
- Notes:
- "First published as New Directions paperbook 955 in 2002"--T.p. verso.
- "A New Directions paperbook original, NDP955"--P. [4] of cover.
- ISBN:
- 0811215377
- OCLC:
- 51117430
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