Thing of Beauty

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New and Selected Works

By Jackson Mac Low

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Thing of Beauty is a landmark collection that spans the remarkable career of Jackson Mac Low, encompassing poetry, performance pieces, traditional verse, prose poems, and other poetic forms. Covering works from 1937 to 2004, this volume showcases Mac Low's extraordinary range and his passionate engagement with art across poetry, music, dance, theatre, and visual arts. Edited by Anne Tardos, it reveals the evolution and continuities of one of twentieth-century America’s major poetic voices, celebrated for his innovative use of chance operations linked to contemporaries like John Cage.
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This collection is ideal for readers interested in avant-garde poetry, experimental art forms, and the interplay between literature and performance. It will appeal to scholars, poets, and enthusiasts of twentieth-century American poetry and those fascinated by collaborations between poetry and other artistic disciplines.

Features poetry, performance pieces, 'traditional' verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art - that 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.

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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."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520260023

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 20 b-w photographs

Contributors:

Edited by Anne Tardos

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 502

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Arts & Culture Jackson Mac Low Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Jackson Mac Low (1922--2004) was a poet, composer, painter, and multimedia performance artist. He is the author of more than twenty-five books including Doings (2005), Pieces o' Six (1993), and Twenties (1992). Anne Tardos is a poet, performer, visual artist, and composer. She is the author of many books including The Dik-dik's Solitude: New and Selected Works (2003), Uxudo (1999), and Mayg-shem Fish (1995).