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By Zukofsky, Louis|Ahearn, Barry
A
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Authors:
Zukofsky, Louis|Ahearn, Barry
Copyright:
1959
Format:
Paperback
GTIN13:
9780811218719
ISBN10:
0811218716
Page Count:
846
Dimensions:
8.9x2.2x6.0
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Strand Notes
Long out of print, "A" is the monumental life-poem by one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. Louis Zukofsky's (1904-1978) poem brims over with daily love, light, intellect and music, expressing a new potency of poetic language to comprehend and counter-form the maddening expansion of human neglect wrought by the 20th century's post-industrial, almost post-cultural, entropy. Zukofsky registers "a new music of verse stretching out into the future." (William Carlos Williams) - a surging tropism of possibility re-formed. Index of Names and Objects. 826p.
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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."
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."
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