Description
- Kind: Perfectbound
- Pages: 114
- Language: English
- Date Published: Octobere, 2018
- ISBN: 978-1-948017-20-6
Praise
Stein begins this beautiful book with a description of Jerusalem’s maze of streets, a labyrinth radiating displacement and the invisible as though they were expressions of divinity. The sacred he tells us is “terrible rigorous luminous endless,” as though each mention of the God buried in his Genizah is perhaps the one law of utterance that is incomplete and that can barely be commanded. Stein writes out of the tradition of the unsayable with great confidence and eloquence. —Michael Heller
Excerpt
Genizah
Last Book of the Wars of the Lord,
Book of Rungs & Bells & the Book
of the Fall of the Chariot, the
Book of Echoes and the Book of Echoes, torn pages
stuffed in the holes in the heart’s genizah,
gap torn in the Book in which the Book
nearly appears, gone before glimpsed, books nothing
but dusk-light & the waste lands of angels,
beams out of the dark
skull-cave of the Book
of the Book, skin-shreds for bindings
& the inner dust blank
tho you burrow there still, Jakob’s worm
in the moldering truth.