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Thing of Beauty : New and Selected Works.
Title:
Thing of Beauty : New and Selected Works.
Author:
Mac Low, Jackson.
ISBN:
9780520933293
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (501 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Poetry and Pleasure -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: 1937-1954 -- Thing of Beauty -- HUNDER STrikE whAt doeS lifemean -- Facsimile pages from original manuscript of HUNGER STrIKE -- Gone-II -- Experiments in Surrealism -- Triumph -- Rachel -- Rhododendron -- Paradise -- Dirge in Days Minor -- Social Significance -- Interlude -- The Times -- WHATS THE MATTER DONT YOU LIKE CANDY -- "Poor Bees, that work all day" -- II. Arrival i'the Bronx & Passing Thru to Grand Central Station (From "Three Poems on the City") -- Primitive Art & The Moon -- The Scene -- The Essential Mistake -- Scene -- "Censoriousness Is My Bugaboo!" -- Selections from "The 11th of July" (19 Cubist Poems, New York, 11 July 1946) -- Hear I Here -- Memory -- Clear Reapers Pleasing -- Molly Go -- & The -- Clear Being -- Whenas My Love -- Proletarian Nursery-Rhyme -- PART II: December 1954-March 1979 -- 4.5.10.11.2.8.4.2.,the 2nd biblical poem -- Moonshine -- A Sonnet for Gérard de Nerval -- Sonnet of My Death -- Syllabic Sonnet -- Sonnet: Rolls Royce -- "The patronizing his most eloquent rôle" -- Sade Suit: A(ce) -- Selections from Stanzas for Iris Lezak (1960) -- Introduction -- Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi Illustrated Harpers -- 6 Gitanjali for Iris -- Poe and Psychoanalysis -- Rome -- London -- Paris -- Marseilles -- Madrid -- Sydney -- Berlin -- There are many ways to use Strayer's Vegetable Soybeans -- The Force Between Molecules -- The Buoyancy of Marine Animals -- Things that go Faster than Light -- Andersen's Fairy Tales -- Asymmetry from the I Ching -- Haiku from the Above -- 3rd Asymmetry for Iris -- An Asymmetry from Dhopeshwarkar on Krishnamurti -- Haiku from the Above (29 Sept. 1960) -- Zen and the Art of Tea -- A Child's Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson with Illustrations.

Selections from Asymmetries 1-260 and Later Asymmetries (1960-61) -- Introduction -- Asymmetry 1 -- Asymmetry 6 -- Asymmetry 7 -- Asymmetry 18 -- Asymmetry 94 -- Asymmetry 137 -- Asymmetry 138 -- Asymmetry 139 -- Asymmetry 237 -- Asymmetry 265 -- Asymmetry 269 -- Asymmetry 285 -- Asymmetry 292 -- Asymmetry 372 -- Asymmetry 373 -- Asymmetry 487 -- Speech (9 August 1961) -- 3 November Poems -- One Hundred (facsimile of original) -- Selections from Drawing-Asymmetries (1961) -- Introduction -- Drawing-Asymmetry #8 -- Drawing-Asymmetry #12 -- Drawing-Asymmetry #15 -- Drawing-Asymmetry #19 -- Drawing-Asymmetry #38 -- Drawing-Asymmetry #41 -- Some Recent Things (1962-1963) -- Paint Brush Box Piece (Summer 1962) -- Rabbi (7 January 1963) -- Prunes (7 January 1963) -- More Recent Things (1963) -- Paprika ['pæ : prIke] (20 January 1963) -- Shocked (8 January 1963) -- Orang-outang (8 January 1963) -- Social Project 1 (29 April 1963) -- Social Project 2 (29 April 1963) -- Social Project 3 (29 April 1963) -- CARDBOARD BOX PIECE-for George Maciunas -- Nietzsche-14 January 1963 -- Men-14 January 1963 -- Daily Life: How to Make Poems from a DAILY LIFE List -- Happy New Year 1964 to Barney and Mary Childs (a DAILY LIFE poem, drawn from DAILY LIFE 1) -- Selections from "The Presidents of the United States of America" -- A Note on the Composition of "The Presidents of the United States of America," 15 December 1968 -- 1789 -- 1825 -- 1829 -- 1837 -- 1841 (I) -- 1849 -- Selected Dances from The Pronouns: A Collection of 40 Dances for the Dancers, 3 February-22 March 1964 -- Introduction -- 3RD DANCE-MAKING A STRUCTURE WITH A ROOF OR UNDER A ROOF-6-7 February 1964 -- 34TH DANCE-TOUCHING-22 March 1964 -- 40TH DANCE-GIVING FALSELY-22 March 1964 -- 1st Asymmetry for Dr. Howard Levy from a news item headed "Doc Backs Army at Levy Trial" Memorial Day, 30 May 1967.

2nd Asymmetry for Dr. Howard Levy from a news item headed "Doc Backs Army at Levy Trial" Memorial Day, 30 May 1967 -- Selections from PFR-3 Poems -- A Note on the PFR-3 Poems -- From "DANSK" -- From "David" -- From "South" -- From "The" -- Selections from Odes for Iris -- 1st Ode for Iris-midnight after the boat ride-Sat-Sun 18-19 July 1970 -- 3rd Ode for Iris-later that night-Sun 19 July 1970 -- 38th Ode for Iris-3:26 AM Tues 28 July 1970 -- 55th Ode for Iris-11:25 PM Wed 29 July 1970 -- 62nd Ode for Iris-6:23 PM Mon 3 Aug 1970 -- 64th Ode for Iris-8:15 AM Tues 4 Aug 1970 -- 76th Ode for Iris-4 AM Wed 19 Aug 1970 -- 97th Ode for Iris-4:30 PM Fri 7 May 1971 -- 112th Ode for Iris-l:30 PM Sun 31 Oct 1971 -- 113th Ode for Iris-2:50 PM Sun 31 Oct 71 -- 114th Ode for Iris-12:10 PM Mon 1 Nov 71 -- 4th Mother Dead Poem -- 5th Mother Dead Poem -- Selections from The Virginia Woolf Poems -- From "The Genesis of 'Ridiculous in Piccadilly.'" -- Ridiculous in Piccadilly., 1-4 -- Phone -- Quatorzains from & for Emily Dickinson -- Selections from French Sonnets -- Introduction -- French Sonnet -- Third French Sonnet -- Selection from Words nd Ends from Ez -- Introduction -- VI. From the Pisan Cantos: LXXIV-LXXXIV 8/1/81 (EZRA POUND) -- Selected Gathas -- Introduction -- Mani-Mani Gatha -- 1st Milarepa Gatha Letter-Pitch Equivalents -- Free Gatha 1 -- Happy Birthday, Anne, Vocabulary Gatha -- Pitch-Class-Letter Equivalents "Happy Birthday, Anne, Vocabulary" -- Selected Light Poems -- Introduction -- Light Poems Chart (facsimile of original) -- Light Poems Chart -- 10th Light Poem: 2nd one for Iris-19 June-2 July 1962 -- 13th Light Poem: for Judith Malina-9 August 1962 -- 16th Light Poem: for Armand Schwerner-22 August 1962 -- 22nd Light Poem: for David Antin & Eleanor & Blaise Antin-1 July 1968 -- 32nd Light Poem: In Memoriam Paul Blackburn-9-10 October 1971.

36th Light Poem: In Memoriam Buster Keaton-4:50-6:18 A.M. Sat 1 Jan. 1972 -- 57th Light Poem: For John Taggart-on & about & after the Ides, March 1979 -- 58th Light Poem: For Anne Tardos-19 March 1979 -- PART III: September 1979-September 2004 -- Introduction to A Vocabulary for Annie Brigitte Gilles Tardos and Bloomsday -- Three Slides from A Vocabulary for Annie Brigitte Gilles Tardos -- Words from A Vocabulary for Annie Brigitte Gilles Tardos -- Selections from Bloomsday -- Antic Quatrains -- Giant Otters -- 1 to 12 & 12 to 1 not 11:55 to 12:48 -- Various Meanings -- Manifest -- Unmanifest -- Trope Market -- Converging Stanzas -- Selections from From Pearl Harbor Day to FDR's Birthday -- Introduction -- Ten Weeks -- Sermon Quail -- A Lack of Balance but Not Fatal -- Central America -- Dialogos for John -- Selections from Pieces o' Six -- Introduction -- Pieces o' Six-IX -- Pieces o' Six-X -- Pieces o' Six-XIV -- Pieces o' Six-XXI -- Pieces o' Six-XXIII -- Pieces o' Six-XXVII -- Selections from 42 Merzgedichte in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters -- Introduction -- 1st Merzgedicht in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters -- 4th Merzgedicht in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters -- 21st Merzgedicht in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters -- 38th Merzgedicht in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters -- 39th Merzgedicht in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters -- Oners n Tenners 1 -- Sitting Teeth -- Star Croak Twelve -- Order Realistic -- People Swamp -- Runnymede Torrefaction -- Coelentertain Megalomaniasis -- Interred Stirps -- Retreated Degree -- Rapidity Mocha -- Anacreon Infanta -- Net Murder 1 -- Drift Nets 1 -- Trick Harp Two -- Selections from Twenties: 100 Poems -- Introduction 327 -- 5 -- 24 -- 27 -- 30 -- 36 -- 56 -- 67 -- Selections from 154 Forties -- A Note on 154 Forties -- Unannounced Slights (Forties 1) -- Libertad Lag (Forties 4) -- Kandinsky Nature Nacreous Zeke (Forties 8).

Kalmon Dolgin Bluestone (Forties 9) -- Rapidity Dreamboat Alive-O (Forties 20) -- Almost Casanova Electricity (Forties 24) -- Rendering Rings Absorbed (Forties 28) -- Philosophic Diligence (Forties 42) -- Attitudes Narrowly Balance Paper Shadows (Forties 56) -- Twirlwater Fantasy Rock-Solid Instances (Forties 81) -- Dracula Felicity (Forties 91) -- Finding Your Own Name (Forties 154) -- Flaming Held Fast (Forties 100) and Flambant tenus serrés (Quarantain 100) -- Staley Mori Parkins -- Sleepy Poetry -- Selections from the Stein Poems -- Introduction -- Little Beginning (Stein 1) -- And Sing More Very Loudly (Stein 11) -- Use and Choose (Stein 12) -- Green Completers So (Stein 13) -- And One That Clear (Stein 15) -- Time That Something Something (Stein 18) -- Pleasant to Be Repeating Very Little of This (Stein 32) -- Be Gentle to a Greek (Stein 53) -- Care Firm (Stein 69) -- More Not More Today Forget (Stein 72) -- Something Important Could Certainly Be Enough (Stein 76) -- Therybody Havere (Stein 86) -- Mercy Entirely Astonishing (Stein 94) -- Ada (Stein 105/Titles 2) -- Mercy Can't Give a Girl Much Pleasure in Things (Stein 108/Titles 5) -- Pointing Out Your Silvery Song (Stein 122/Titles 19) -- Scatter the Occasion (Stein 152/Titles 47) -- That Orange (Stein 159/Titles 53) -- Is Adventure Feeling Being Connected with Others? (Stein 160/Titles 54) -- Wrinkles' Wisdom Despairs Most Leadenly, Bays at Age, Long May Long (Hopkins 12) -- Selections from HSC and HSCH -- Introduction -- Willie's Clatter (HSC 1) -- Agnes Cried in July (HSC 5) -- I'm Bone-Hours Thinner Than Their Pencils (HSC 6) -- The Pawns Were Nonexistent (HSC 11) -- It Will Glow Unseen Until It Doesn't (HSCH 1) -- Feeling Down, Clementi Felt Imposed upon from Every Direction. (HSCH 10) -- Waldoboro Poems -- Introduction -- 14 September 2004 82 years + 2 days Waldoboro, Maine.

Still Waldoboro Wednesday a.m. 9/22/2004.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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