A Book of Witness: Spells & Gris-Gris (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811215374)

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.

Author: Jerome Rothenberg
ISBN-10: 0811215377
ISBN-13: 9780811215374
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.30w x 0.36d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/2003 pg. 88
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2003 pg. 57