Representative Works: 1938-1985

by Jackson Mac Low

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937804193
• ISBN13: 9780937804193
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Roof Books
• Length: 336 Pages