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Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry
Louis Zukofsky
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Description for Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
Anew, sun, to fire summer
leaves move toward the air
from the stems of the branches
fire summer fire summer
—from Anew
Here is the complete music-filled arc of Louis Zukofsky’s shorter verse collected in one volume: lyrical love poems written to his wife Celia and son Paul; the groundbreaking “Poem Beginning ‘The,’ ” “which sends up ‘The Waste Land’ and its cultural vision in a cloud of bricolage, a hilarious pastiche of quotes, canon and kitsch, high and low hopelessly intertwined” (Michael Palmer); the boisterous, riotous translations of Catullus; ... Read more
Anew, sun, to fire summer
leaves move toward the air
from the stems of the branches
fire summer fire summer
—from Anew
Here is the complete music-filled arc of Louis Zukofsky’s shorter verse collected in one volume: lyrical love poems written to his wife Celia and son Paul; the groundbreaking “Poem Beginning ‘The,’ ” “which sends up ‘The Waste Land’ and its cultural vision in a cloud of bricolage, a hilarious pastiche of quotes, canon and kitsch, high and low hopelessly intertwined” (Michael Palmer); the boisterous, riotous translations of Catullus; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811218726
SKU
V9780811218726
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-20
About Louis Zukofsky
Louis Zukofsky spent forty-six years writing his masterwork “A,” and died before he could see the completed version published. Poet, translator, fiction writer, essayist, anthologist, critic, teacher, WPA worker, and binding force of the Objectivist poets, Zukofsky was born in New York City and lived in or near the city his whole life.
Reviews for Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry
"Aside from the fact that Zukofsky’s short poems are intensely individual and their energy sings in a new way, they move in a circular path ‘so that we may think in our time.’ Indeed they seem to move in all directions at once — each of the smallest and the most quiet a field of magnetic force."
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