Thing of Beauty New and Selected Works [Paperback]

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.

Jackson Mac Low(19222004) was a poet, composer, painter, and multimedia performance artist. He is the author of more than twenty-five books includingDoings(2005),Pieces o Six(1993), andTwenties(1992).Anne Tardosis a poet, performer, visual artist, and composer. She is the author of many books includingThe Dik-diks Solitude: New and Selected Works(2003),Uxudo(1999), andMayg-shem Fish(1995).

Foreword
Acknowledgements

PART I: 1937-1954
PART II: December 1954 - March 1979
PART III: September 1979 - September 2004

Publications
Credits
About Jackson Mac Low
About Anne Tardos
Index of Titles

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