Excerpts from
L A N G U A G E _ A S _ R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y
by Leonard Schwartz • 2006 • $12
Design by Lian Lederman

[From the verse essay]

The very being of language
Implies an other with whom to speak.
Language is always the other spoken to.
Each hill of Jerusalem knows that,
Next year in
Cry indeed unto
Next year in

Leonard Schwartz is the author of, among other books, Ear And Ethos, The Tower Of Diverse Shores, and Words Before The Articulate, all from Talisman House. He hosts the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics. He teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

review by Philip Metres