Anew
Complete Shorter Poetry
Format:Paperback
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published:4th Feb '11
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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; spare, brilliant nature poems as if written by an ancient hokku master; his genius “ ‘Mantis’ ” sestina; the enigmatic, spiraling, and beautiful last poems, “80 Flowers.” Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry is a book of blessings and gifts for any poetry lover.
"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." -- Lorine Niedecker
"No poet is in touch at so many points with so much of the world around him; no poet has written so comprehensively of domestic life; and no poet has undertaken so sustained and original an effort to make political poetry possible in this century of poetic and political extremes." -- Steven Helming - Dictionary of Literary Biography
ISBN: 9780811218726
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
Weight: 532g
384 pages