Thing of beauty : new and selected works / Jackson Mac Low ; edited by Anne Tardos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mac Low, Jackson.

Contributor:

Tardos, Anne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental poetry.

Performance art--Texts.

Performance art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This landmark collection brings together poetry, performance pieces, "traditional" verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art. The works span the years from 1937, beginning with "Thing of Beauty," his first poem, until his death in 2004 and demonstrate his extraordinary range as well as his unquenchable enthusiasm. Mac Low is widely acknowledged as one of the major figures in twentieth-century American poetry, with much of his work ranging into the spheres of music, dance, theater, performance, and the visual arts. Comparable in stature to such giants as Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, and Allen Ginsberg, Mac Low is often associated with composer John Cage, with whom he shared a delight in work derived from "chance operations." This volume, edited by Anne Tardos, his wife and frequent collaborator, offers a balanced arrangement of early, middle, and late work, designed to convey not just the range but also the progressions and continuities of his writings and "writingways."

Contents:

pt. I. 1937-1954

pt. II. December 1954-March 1979

pt. III. September 1979-September 2004.

Notes:

"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780520933293

052093329X

OCLC:

608146901