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Hand Book
(co-edited with Susan Mernit)
hand for the body
book for the word
the whole world for use
Conceived as thematic anthologies,
three issues of Hand Book were published in the late 1970s. Copies
of most issues are still available from Rochelle Ratner. Please
e-mail for more information.
Issue 1: Prayer
(1977) 215 pages
Prayer in its religious connotations,
certainly, but also the asking, voicing of wants, however mundane,
in our everyday lives. Also expands to explore prayer's opposite,
blessing, giving thanks, bequeathing.
Includes work by Emmett Jarrett,
Marc Kaminsky, Marcia Falk, Robert Sward, Nathan Whiting, Rose Drachler,
Michael Heller, Joseph Bruchac, Howard Schwartz, T. Carmi, William
Stafford and others.
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Issue 2: Silence
(1978) 214 pages
SILENCE, the space inside our
selves, quiet, the absence of space, the Void. Silence as contemplation/the
stilled voice. The air in Silence.
Includes work by David Ignatow,
Theodore Enslin, Nathaniel Tarn, Charlie Morrow, Toby Olson, John
Logan, Vassar Miller, Charles Fishman, Anthony Rudolf, Jack Anderson
and others.
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Issue 3: The Spiritual Sword
(1979) 206 pages
A turn toward the dark side -
spiritual violence, the daemonic and demonic, the need for even
the kind deities to mask their hearts at times, Ruach, breath,
as renunciation of the self.
Includes work by Jerome Rothenberg,
Maurice Kenny, Attila Josef, Clarence Major, David Wilk, Dahlia
Ravikovich, Faye Kicknosway, Harvey Shapiro and others.
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