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Book SynopsisThe new, authoritative edition of
“A”: the monumental lifepoem by one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, Louis Zukofsky.
Trade Review"‘A’ ’s place is in the great line of American personal epic begun in
Song of Myself and stretching through the
Cantos,
Paterson,
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, and
The Dream Songs. It should be read." -- The Nation
"Zukofsky’s art, in this work, is without equal. No poet of our time can sound the resources of language, so actuate words to become all that they might be thought otherwise to engender." -- Robert Creeley - The New York Times
"Magnificent: a great poem really rolling in all its power and splendor of language." -- James Laughlin
"'A' belongs in the company of the major modernist epics such as Pound's Cantos or Williams' Patterson. It will repay as much attention as it is given." -- Bob Perelman - The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The poem is “of a life,” but the life that it presents is closer to life-as-experienced than life as narrated or told. And that, in the final analysis, is precisely the essence of Zukofsky’s genius." -- Mary Wilson - Make Magazine
