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Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works
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 enthusias...more
Hardcover, 458 pages
Published
January 28th 2008
by University of California Press
(first published January 28th 2007)
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I liked the works: "Thing of Beauty" p. 3, "Gone-II" p. 14, "What's The Matter Don't You Like Candy?" p. 18, "Primitive Art & The Moon" p.24, "Clear Being" p. 32, Whenas My Love" p. 32, "One Hundred" p. 101,"Daily Life" p.116,and "Various Meanings" p. 244.
Basically everything else I didn't understand or didn't like.
Basically everything else I didn't understand or didn't like.
The concept of the poems in this book intrigues me, but to read them is just boring. I like my poems to MEAN something, to come from a person's heart. These poems are to cerebral, too much like a science or sociology experiment. I realize this is just my personal taste, so if you like poetry still check this one out just to see what MacLow was all about. I just couldn't finish it.
I'm almost finished this book, and it's a great introduction to Mac Low's work. Anne Tardos does a wonderful job of introducing and presenting his work over several decades.
for a reader like me, i couldn't escape this book once i picked it up. pan fried ostensible pragmatics
a masterpiece! a very substantial collection from one of america's most industrious poets.
Mac Low is a lesson in what is possible. So extraordinarily inventive, and so humane.
It really doesn't get any better than this. I pick this book up on a daily basis and consistently find something new to love, laugh at, or consider. It can change how you approach poetry.
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