Amazon.com: "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."Starred Review: "In her enlightening forward to this newest gathering of avant-garde poet Mac Low's work, Tardos makes the case that Mac Low (1922-2004) had an over-arching interest throughout his career in creating things of beauty, a bombshell of a statement considering Mac Low's oeuvre, made up in large part of Zen-inspired chance experiments and ungainly language clusters like Ugolino, / re oN rlin / Dysentery / Eille eZzato paRently. Mac Low's work has always been interesting, but beautiful? This collection, which follows two previous selections, does the best job to date in providing a window into Mac Low's unique perspective on what constitutes poetic beauty, showcasing a wide range of his poetry, from earnest political juvenilia to concrete-poetic text experiments, and featuring the previously less represented work Mac Low did in his last 20 years. Mac Low's more personal, less overtly process-generated, lyrics reveal the modernist and Romantic roots of Mac Low's sensibility. No. no. no. Hear! The between, he wrote in 1946 in Hear I here, laying out his lifetime preoccupation with betweenness. Mac Low continued to listen dutifully until his death. This book provides a rewarding testament to his ability to transcribe what he heard." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.