Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry

Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry

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<p><strong>A gathering of all of Zukofsky’s poems outside of <em>“A”</em> ― poems that are “absolute clarification, crystal cabinets full of air and angels” (Kenneth Rexroth).</strong></p><em>     Anew, sun, to fire summer<br />      leaves move toward the air<br />      from the stems of the branches<br /><br />            fire summer fire summer</em><br />                   ―from Anew<br /><br /> 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.” <em>Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry</em> is a book of blessings and gifts for any poetry lover.