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Testimony: The United States 1885-1915: Recitative
By Reznikoff, Charles|Weinberger, Eliot
Testimony: The United States 1885-1915: Recitative
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Authors:
Reznikoff, Charles|Weinberger, Eliot
Copyright:
2015
Format:
Paperback
GTIN13:
9781567925319
ISBN10:
1567925316
Page Count:
480
Dimensions:
6.0x1.4x9.0
Publisher:
Black Sparrow Press
Jacket Notes:
Available again for the first time since 1978"€"and complete in one volume for the first time ever"€"Charles Reznikoff's Testimony is a lost masterpiece, a legendary book that stands alongside Louis Zukofsky's "A" and William Carlos Williams's Paterson as a milestone of modern American poetry. Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts, Reznikoff's book sets forth a stark panorama of late- 19th- and early 20th-century America-the underside of the Gilded Age, beset by racism and casual violence, poverty and disease-in a radically stripped-down language of almost unbearable intensity. This edition also includes Reznikoff 's prose studies for the poem, unavailable to readers since the 1930s, and a new introduction by essayist Eliot Weinberger.
Available again for the first time since 1978--and complete in one volume--Charles Reznikoff's Testimony is a lost masterpiece, a legendary book that stands alongside Louis Zukofsky's "A" and William Carlos Williams's Paterson as a milestone of modern American poetry.
Available again for the first time since 1978"€"and complete in one volume for the first time ever"€"Charles Reznikoff's Testimony is a lost masterpiece, a legendary book that stands alongside Louis Zukofsky's "A" and William Carlos Williams's Paterson as a milestone of modern American poetry. Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts, Reznikoff's book sets forth a stark panorama of late- 19th- and early 20th-century America-the underside of the Gilded Age, beset by racism and casual violence, poverty and disease-in a radically stripped-down language of almost unbearable intensity. This edition also includes Reznikoff 's prose studies for the poem, unavailable to readers since the 1930s, and a new introduction by essayist Eliot Weinberger.
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Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts, Charles Reznikoff's book sets forth a stark panorama of late 19th- and early 20th-century America--the underside of the Gilded Age, beset by racism and casual violence, poverty and disease--in a radically stripped-down language of almost unbearable intensity. This edition also includes Reznikoff's prose studies for the poem, unavailable to readers since the 1930s, and a new introduction by essayist Eliot Weinberger.
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