Synopses & Reviews
-- from " 'A'-11" At long last, here is the whole of Louis Zukofsky's epic masterpiece back in print with misprints corrected and a new, fresh introduction by the noted scholar Barry Ahearn. No other poem in the English language is filled with as much daily love, light, intellect, and music. As William Carlos Williams once wrote of Zukofsky's poetry, "I hear a new music of verse stretching out into the future."
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‘A’ ’s place is in the great line of American personal epic begun in Songof Myselfand stretching through the Cantos, Paterson, Notes Toward aSupreme Fiction, and The Dream Songs. It should be read.Magnificent: a great poem really rolling in all its power and splendor oflanguage. -- James Laughlin
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"Zukofsky's art, in this work, is without equal. No poet of our time can sound the resources of language, so actuate words to become all that they might be thought otherwise to engender." Robert Creeley
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"'A' 's place is in the great line of American personal epic begun in and stretching through the , , , and . It should be read." The Nation
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"The poem is "of a life," but the life that it presents is closer to life-as-experienced than life as narrated or told. And that, in the final analysis, is precisely the essence of Zukofsky's genius." Bob Perelman The Philadelphia Inquirer
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"Magnificent: a great poem really rolling in all its power and splendor of language." The New York Times
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"'A' belongs in the company of the major modernist epics such as Pound's Cantos or Williams' Patterson. It will repay as much attention as it is given." James Laughlin
Synopsis
Louis Zukofsky's most important poetic work now returns to print in a new softcover edition.
Synopsis
River that must turn full after I stop dying Song, my song, raise grief to musi Light as my loves thought, the few sic So sick of wrangling: thus weeping Sounds of light, stay in her keepin And my son s face this much for hono from A -11 At long last, here is the whole of Louis Zukofsky s epic masterpiece A back in print with misprints corrected and a new, fresh introduction by the noted scholar Barry Ahearn. No other poem in the English language is filled with as much daily love, light, intellect, and music. As William Carlos Williams once wrote of Zukofsky s poetry, I hear a new music of verse stretching out into the future. "
Synopsis
River that must turn full after I stop dying
Song, my song, raise grief to music
Light as my loves' thought, the few sick
So sick of wrangling: thus weeping,
Sounds of light, stay in her keeping
And my son's face - this much for honor
-- from " 'A'-11"
At long last, here is the whole of Louis Zukofsky's epic masterpiece "A" back in print with misprints corrected and a new, fresh introduction by the noted scholar Barry Ahearn. No other poem in the English language is filled with as much daily love, light, intellect, and music. As William Carlos Williams once wrote of Zukofsky's poetry, "I hear a new music of verse stretching out into the future."
Synopsis
The new, authoritative edition of : the monumental lifepoem by one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, Louis Zukofsky.
About the Author
Louis Zukofsky spent forty-six years writing his masterwork "A," and died before he could see the completed version published. Poet, translator, fiction writer, essayist, anthologist, critic, teacher, WPA worker, and binding force of the Objectivist poets, Zukofsky was born in New York City and lived in or near the city his whole life.Barry Ahearn is the Pierce Butler Professor of English at Tulane University. His books include Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction, Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters, and The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky.