The Annotated Book of Jerusalem

Julia Vinograd’s The Book of Jerusalem, a cycle of poems she worked on throughout her life, is a dialogue between God and Jerusalem, written from an atheist anti-war perspective. It contains a panoramic view of Middle Eastern politics, street life as she experienced it in 1960’s San Francisco, and the search for existential meaning through poetry.

It is also a complex, hermetic work, comparable to Blake’s prophetic books in its development of a cryptic and condensed, but consistent and meaningful mythic vocabulary. This edition of the book full explains all the delphic subtleties of the original, and makes it possible to easily and fully appreciate Vinograd’s masterpiece.