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The Book, Spiritual Instrument

Item date(s): 1996

Jerome Rothenberg  - (edited with a preface by)
David Guss  - (co-editor)


Pages: 160pp
Size: 227mm

Sub-type: Anthology

Place publication: New York
Publisher: Granary Books
ISBN: 1-887123-08-3

Additional notes:
Illustrated on page 138 of When will the book be done? By Steven Clay, 2001.

Ref: 0152

Articles

''The Book We Write Continues to be Written"
   p13

The  Book, Spiritual Instrument
 Michael Gibbs (essay by)
 Stéphane Mallarmé (essay by)
   p14
   SK 269
   Le Livre, Instrument Spirituel. Translated and visually interpreted by Michael Gibbs.

The  Aesthetics of Sounding of the Text
 J. Stephen Lansing (essay by)
   p21

Reading the Mesa: An Interview with Eduardo Calderón
 David Guss (essay by)
   p45

Bookforms
 Karl Young (essay by)
   p52
   SK 426

What the Popul Vuh Tells about Itself
 Dennis Tedlock (essay by)
   p59

The  Book as an Instrument of Performance
 Becky Cohen (essay by)
   p62
   SK 80

From "Tabula Rasula"
 Jed Rasula (essay by)
   p82

On "The Book of Bean"
 Alison Knowles (essay by)
   p85
   SK 238
   Also exerpted in "A Book of the Book" edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay.

Auto-dialogue on the Transvironmental Book: Reflections on "The Book of Bean"
 George Quasha (essay by)
   p93
   SK 349

Muslim Soup
 Tina Oldknow (essay by)
   p99

A  Book
 Dick Higgins (essay by)
   p102
   SK 194

From The Rabbi's Dream Book
 David Meltzer (essay by)
   p105

Notes on "Codex Vienna"
 Karl Young (essay by)
   p108

The  Book and the Desert / [Wilderness]: An Interview
 Edmond Jabès (essay by)
   p124

The  Oral & the Written: "There is No Written Torah Here on Earth"
 Gershom Scholem (essay by)
   p136
   Discourse.

Deep Throat: The Grail of the Voice
 Herbert Blau (essay by)
   p139
   Discourse.







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