Book of witness, a: spells & gris-gris
Auteur :
Rothenberg, Jerome
Éditeur :
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN :
9780811215374
Date de publication :
17 avr. 2003
Dimensions :
20,3 x 13,2 x 1,0 cm
Poids :
152 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Half of these poems were written in 199, the others in the two years that followed. As well as marking the change of era, they re-establish the primacy of the poetic "I" - a singular witness and a conduit for others. Often incantatory, the poems reaffirm self in the face of history's darkness.