<p>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."</p>

Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works

Literature & Fiction

MAC LOW, Jackson

History & Criticism

University of California Press

<p>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." </p>

Stanzas for Iris Lezak

Poetry

Something Else Press

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Pronouns: A Collection of Forty Dances for the Dancers

Station Hill Pr

The pronouns: A collection of forty dances for the dancers, 3 February-22 March 1964

Station Hill Press

Poems drawn from the works of Virginia Woolf by Jackson Mac Low's "diastic" or "spelling-thru" technique, and followed by his essay "The Genesis of 'Ridiculous in Piccadilly' ". 100 hardcover copies. ISBN 0930901274.

The Virginia Woolf poems

Burning Deck

The Virginia Woolf Poems

Burning Deck Books

Poetry. Jackson Mac Low's REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: 1938-1985 is a compilation that follows the work of American experimentalism through one of its strongest arrangers. Mac Low, a proponent of "systems of chance," treated chance and choice as equal-handed characters in the making of poetry. Despite his intentional steering toward randomness, Mac Low's poetry "always has a remarkable compassion and humor...just as there are ways of jumping off or in or on."—Robert CreeleyMac Low writes attentively and "his poetry, even though it looks like it, is poetry."—John Cage

Representative Works: 1938-1985

Roof Books

Words and Ends from E-Z

Sun Moon Pr

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