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 Creeley. Mac Low writes attentively and "his poetry, even though it looks like it, is poetry"--John Cage.
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Long awaited by Mac Low's loyal fol lowing, Representative Works selects carefully from each of the avant-garde poet's stylistically diverse periods, proving that he was experimenting with nonsyntactical and chance writing long before either form became fashionable. Mac Low's emotional engagement with the material is attested to by political and emotional undercurrents, not often found in this kind of writing. While Mac Low is aware that many readers will skip his lengthy instructions for perfor mance, these place the work in its in tended context. The uninitiated reader might start with the highly accessible selections from ``The Presidents of the United States of America'' or ``Odes for Iris.'' The Virginia Woolf Poems , written in 1976 and 1977, continue the poet's vari ations on the acrostic forms. While this volume is recommended for Mac Low fans only, Representative Works is es sential for all larger poetry collec tions. Rochelle Ratner, formerly Po etry Editor , ``Soho Weekly News,'' New York
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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