A [Paperback]

The new, authoritative edition of A s place is in the great line of American personal epic begun in Zukofskys art, in this work, is without equal. No poet of our time cansound the resources of language, so actuate words to become all thatthey might be thought otherwise to engender. Magnificent: a great poem really rolling in all its power and splendor oflanguage. 'A' belongs in the company of the major modernist epics such as Pound's Cantos or Williams' Patterson. It will repay as much attention as it is given. The poem is of a life, but the life that it presents is closer to life-as-experienced than life as narrated or told. And that, in the final analysis, is precisely the essence of Zukofskys genius.