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Written in a time when there is much debate about the future of print media, this collection of thoughtful, scholarly essays addresses the role of the book as a mythic and physical object. Work by Jacques Derrida, Gertrude Stein, Susan Howe, Maurice Blanchot, and a host of others is accompanied by black-and-white photographs, in addition to a color facsimile of LA PROSE DU TRANSSIBÉRIEN by Sonia Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars.
| Size | | Length: | 537 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 32.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[T]his collection might be considered a primer in the field....While A BOOK OF THE BOOK does not so much look ahead, it does make evident that books and bookmaking have a wide open future. Many of the artists and writers who create that future will have read this volume."
Rain Taxi Review of Books - Charles Alexander
"THE BOOK OF THE BOOK is, not surprisingly, structured like a poem, a modernist poem whose exigent form is message and method. That being so, it is best to ignore the random access capability of the book and read this one start to finish....Together Rothenberg and Clay have had a lifetime of preparation for the making of this anthology. The memorable result is a book that, like a great poem, casts its light on everything else you pick up to read after you put it down. It is, in short, a true anthology--a book of the book."
Jacket - Brooke Bergan (08/01/2002)
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