Concealments and Caprichos

Combining two works written over the same time period Concealments and Caprichos is a two-pronged follow up to Rothenberg's earlier book of poems, A Book of Witness. As Rothenberg states in his preface, the title is based on a Jewish mystical work, Sifra diSeni'uta from which he drew the lines that open this title. Those lines appear sporadically throughout Concealments, not as the mapping of a nonexistent god, but as an intimation, in both Concealments and Caprichos, of an imagined world embedded in the real one.

Summary

Combining two works written over the same time period Concealments and Caprichos is a two-pronged follow up to Rothenberg's earlier book of poems, A Book of Witness. As Rothenberg states in his preface, the title is based on a Jewish mystical work, Sifra diSeni'uta from which he drew the lines that open this title. Those lines appear sporadically throughout Concealments, not as the mapping of a nonexistent god, but as an intimation, in both Concealments and Caprichos, of an imagined world embedded in the real one.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Rothenberg
• Publisher: Black Widow Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2010
• EAN: 9780984264001
• ISBN: 978-0-9842640-0-1
• No. of pages: 235
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 306 g
• Series: Black Widow Press Modern Poetr; Black Widow Press Modern Poetr
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies