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Iris Lezak was Mac Low's lover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Publisher's Weekly review: "Excerpting from poetic, video and photographic work from over 12 years, this largish, elegantly designed book is a virtual encyclopedia of artistic techniques mostly operating within the traditions of Dada and collage (Kurt Schwitters looms heavily), Fluxus and early digital art (much of it created with Ataris), right through Language poetry, but creating a gendered, polylingual, image-enhanced reality all its own. In the epistolary dialogue with Lyn Hejinian that prefaces the book, Tardos explains her approach as being one of uncertainty: "Maybe it's a question of creating a condition of not knowing what one is about to do. Or should I say it takes enormous discipline and control to surrender control." Reflecting her nomadic European roots, Tardos also conveys a more poignant concern that her operations between media, not settling on one genre such as "poetry," may strand her in a "liminal" zone between art forms, though not outside of "art." Yet the...

Scope and Contents According to the editors, "This is a historically based survey of what was happening in poets theatre from year to year in the four decades after World War II."In Michael McClure's play, the "Feast (1960)," made-up language is utilized. The players were members of the Semina group of writers. Hannah Weiner's play "RJ (Romeo & Juliet) (1966) employs one to three letter combinations of non-words adjacent to the character designations based upon a 19th century code "The International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations." These provide directions for performance. Bruce Andrews Song No.3 (1973) is a listing of phrases with directions without character designations.Amazon.com. Caroline Bergvall: Each play included here is a gauge of the contributions, some light-hearted, some light-headed, some gestural, some structural, that a great many influential American poets have made in the shadow of experimental theatre s heydays. The editors are themselves no strangers to the guilty...

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This book is an anthology of the first three volumes of the magazine "L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E" that were published in 1978. It is stored with the original issues of "L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Internet: THE POLITICS OF POETIC FORM: POETRY AND PUBLIC POLICY is a series of essays from a discussion that occurred at the New School for Social Research in New York. The discussion mines the relationship between poetic composition and political expression. Poetry's relationship to public policy typically has a questionable margin of relation. Not only does this volume posit that poetry is a dynamic medium for the consideration of political ideas, it focuses on the ideological weight specific formal innovations bring to poetry. Some of the writers include Jerome Rothenberg, Ron Silliman, Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey and Charles Bernstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Peter Moore took 14 b&w photographs of the dancers that are reproduced in this book. The poems provide loose instructions for dances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Peter Moore took 14 b&w photographs of the dancers that are reproduced in this book. The poems provide loose instructions for dances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The proceeds from this book went to support people with AIDS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Introduction by Jackson MacLow, cover design by Paul Woodbine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mac Low composed the poems in this book by modifying sentences with different words by a rigorous technique in Virginia Woolf's novel, The Waves. This method was used to generate other poems from Mac Low's experiences. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Richard Morris reported a survey of 65 poet-editors of different schools of poetry and who were asked "the best poets currently writing in the English language." The results included among others Antin, Ashbery, Beckett, Berrigan, Blaser, Bukowski, Bunting, Cage, Codrescu, Coolidge, Corman, Corso, Davey, Dorn, Elmslie, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Giorno, Hirschman, Hollo, Houedard, Ronald Johnson, David Jones, Kryss, Lifshin, McClure, Mac Low, Meltzer, Merrill, Merwin, Meyer, Perchik, Plymell, Raworth, Rothenberg, Simic, Snodgrass, Charles Stein, Swenson, Tarn, Keith Waldrop, Emmet Williams, Jonathan Williams, Zulovsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Cover blurbs: 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...

Scope and Contents 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...

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The poems are made up of single words, names and short phrases, which are not arranged through normative syntax and rarely short sentences, none embedded in narrative, logical, or other structures of discourse, composed as a sort of automatic writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems are made up of single words, names and short phrases, which are not arranged through normative syntax and rarely short sentences, none embedded in narrative, logical, or other structures of discourse, composed as a sort of automatic writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems in this work are entitled "Elephants Ensembled Poem" and "80th Birthday Event for Jackson Mac Low." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mac Low extracts new poetry from the Cantos of Ezra Pound by his systematic use of strings of letters" and thereby reveals a purer, inhering paradise within Pound's poem." His method is explained in detail in the afterward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.