In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes an essay about the exhibition of Romanian artist books by Andrei Plesu, "Image, Writing, Breathing," in which he concludes: "And the microcosmic spirit of wind is the breath (k'i). Writing is an embodied breathing, a hieroglyph of the vital soul itself. And in a sense, the exhibition we ponder over is a discourse about breathing, about the meaningful rhythms of spontaneity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.