"A" (New Directions Books)

ISBN: 0811218716

Author: Zukofsky, Louis

Condition: New

The new, authoritative edition of A: the monumental lifepoem by one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, Louis Zukofsky. River that must turn full after I stop dyingSong, my song, raise grief to musicLight as my loves thought, the few sickSo sick of wrangling: thus weeping,Sounds of light, stay in her keepingAnd my sons face - this much for honor- from A-11At long last, here is the whole of Louis Zukofskys epic masterpiece A back in print with misprints corrected and a new, fresh introduction by the noted scholar Barry Ahearn. No other poem in the English language is filled with as much daily love, light, intellect, and music. As William Carlos Williams once wrote of Zukofskys poetry, I hear a new music of verse stretching out into the future.