Representative Works: 1938-1985 - Hardcover

Poetry. Jackson Mac Low's REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: 1938-1985 is a compilation that follows the work of American experimentalism through one of its strongest arrangers. Mac Low, a proponent of "systems of chance," treated chance and choice as equal-handed characters in the making of poetry. Despite his intentional steering toward randomness, Mac Low's poetry "always has a remarkable compassion and humor...just as there are ways of jumping off or in or on."—Robert Creeley

Mac Low writes attentively and "his poetry, even though it looks like it, is poetry."—John Cage

Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004) made poems, essays, and musical, performance, visual, and radio works. Author of about 30 books and published in over 90 collections, his works have been published, exhibited, and performed (often by his wife, the poet, visual artist, and composer Anne Tardos and himself) in many countries. Awards: Guggenheim, NEA, NYFA, and CAPS fellowships and the 1999 Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets. Recent books: DOINGS: ASSORTED PERFORMANCE PIECES 1955-2002 (Granary Books, 2003), Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works (University of California Press, 2008), and 154 FORTIES (Counterpath Press, 2012).