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Mac Low, Jackson, 1922-2004

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1922 September 12 - 2004 December 8

Nationality

American

Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:

4 Trains / Mac Low, Jackson., 1974

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Identifier: CC-06753-6872
Scope and Contents

This book was given to the Sackners by Susan Barron on 8/18/90 who wrote Concrete? or Cement? He's a friend of Cage... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

20 Forties / Mac Low, Jackson ; Tardos A., 1999

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Identifier: CC-37118-38960
Scope and Contents

This book includes 20 poems from "154 Forties," a series that Mac Low has been writing and revising since 1990. The cover was designed by Anne Tardos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

21 Matched Asymmetries / Mac Low, Jackson ; Cheek C., 1978

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Identifier: CC-47571-68580
Scope and Contents Mac Low explains the compostion of these poems. ""Asymmetries" are nonstanzaic chance-generated poems of which the printed formats are notations for solo or group' performance. They are "asymmetrical" in that they have no regularly repeating stanzaic or other patterns. They are "notations" in that most aspects of their format can be translated into aspects of performance. Notably, the lengths of blank space before, between, & after single words or word strings, & between lines, stand for "temporal holes" -- durations in which readers keep silent or produce single prolonged tones on instruments that can sustain tones evenly (e.g., winds; bowed strings; reed, pipe, & electronic organs; & other electronic & mechanical sound producers). To measure these blanks, each poem page is conceived as a rectangle of which the horizontal sides are the top & bottom lines of words and the vertical sides are imaginary margin lines running parallelly thru the rightmost and...
Dates: 1978

22 Light Poems / Mac Low, Jackson., 1968

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Identifier: CC-47580-68589
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

22 Light Poems / Mac Low, Jackson., 1968

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Identifier: CC-47581-68590
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. The chart is at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

36th Light Poem in Memoriam Buster Keaton / Mac Low, Jackson., 1975

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Identifier: CC-47577-68586
Scope and Contents

These pamphlets were printed in May 1975 as Number Five in the Permanent Press series on the occasion of Mac Low's first English tour. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

36th Light Poem in Memoriam Buster Keaton / Mac Low, Jackson., 1975

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Identifier: CC-47578-68587
Scope and Contents

These pamphlets were printed in May 1975 as Number Five in the Permanent Press series on the occasion of Mac Low's first English tour. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

A Big Jewish Book: Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to Present / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; MacLow J ; Ginsberg A ; Schwerner A ; Hirschman J ; Tarn N ; Tzara T ; Meltzer D ; Corman C ; Berge C ; Antin D ; Celan P ; Benveniste A ; Zukofsky L ; Stein G ; Rothenberg E ; Kostelanetz R ; Isou I ; Abulafia A ; Berman W ; Morrow C ; Drachler R ; Shaw K ; Kaprow A ; Corner P., 1978

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Identifier: CC-31526-33019
Scope and Contents

In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

A Big Jewish Book: Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to Present / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; MacLow J ; Ginsberg A ; Schwerner A ; Hirschman J ; Tarn N ; Tzara T ; Meltzer D ; Corman C ; Berge C ; Antin D ; Celan P ; Benveniste A ; Zukofsky L ; Stein G ; Rothenberg E ; Kostelanetz R ; Isou I ; Abulafia A ; Berman W ; Morrow C ; Drachler R ; Shaw K ; Kaprow A ; Corner P., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-31534-33027
Scope and Contents

In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

A Vocabulary For Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim / Mac Low, Jackson., 1968

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Identifier: CC-47565-68574
Scope and Contents

The verso is a calligraphic text explaining how the print was made, the exhibition of it and instructions for performing the piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

A Vocabulary For Peter Innisfree Moore February 1974-July 1975 / Mac Low, Jackson., 1989

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Identifier: CC-06743-6862
Scope and Contents

A print by MacLow of this work is also held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989