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Barnesbook : four poems derived from sentences by Djuna Barnes / Jackson Mac Low.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.A228 B37 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mac Low, Jackson.
- Series:
- Sun & Moon classics
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 53 pages ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, California : Sun & Moon Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- Long an admirer of the work of Djuna Barnes, noted poet Jackson Mac Low used five of her works as the source material to which he applied the method of "involving irregularly biased random digit triplets to lead...to a chance-determined number of sentences in these works and to mix them". He then entered each group of mixed sentences into the DIASTEXT program and edited the output. The result is a wonderful nonintentional work that "whispers" Barnes's incredible words "something quick" into the ear. In this work the distinguished American poet - winner of the 1994 America Award for Poetry - continues to explore the dynamics and excitement of the American language and its meaning.
- ISBN:
- 1557132356
- OCLC:
- 35558988
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