Granary Books is pleased to announce the publication of Jackson Mac
Low's DOINGS: ASSORTED PERFORMANCE PIECES 1955-2002.
Termed “America’s most indefatigable experimental poet” by Publishers
Weekly, Jackson Mac Low has been recognized internationally as a master
innovator for nearly five decades. Doings: Assorted Performance Pieces
1955–2002 presents a comprehensive collection of the poet’s
handwritten, drawn, typographic and musical notations — works composed
through nonintentional methods and which operate simultaneously as
visual art, literature and scores for performance. The book includes
detailed performance instructions as well as notes on the specific
procedures of composition through which the works were created. The
curious reader finally has access to some of the most important yet
most elusive works within Mac Low’s oeuvre, including many examples of
“Gathas,” “Vocabularies,” “Asymmetries,” “Light Poems,” and more.
Doings performs the dual task of sourcebook and Baedeker — a looking
glass through which to see where we’ve been and where we’re going as we
sift through the radical poetries of the postmodern era looking for
renewal, for the inevitable path to the future. Doings includes an
introduction by publisher Steve Clay, five gate-fold pull-outs, and a
60 minute CD of live and studio performance recordings.
“Jackson Mac Low’s art returns us to something like the stance of an
earlier avant-garde (Russian Futurism, Dada, etc.) for which artistic,
spiritual & political renewals were all part of a single impulse. In no
contemporary does it show through as clearly, movingly, this vision of
experimental/language-centered art as social action … Mac Low, who is
one of our true inventors, creates new modes & brings us back to the
oldest possibilities of sound & language as they enter poetry & music &
performance … The more one treats the book not only as a text but as a
source & manual — the more one realizes the service of this work, its
lasting power. It is in this sense that the book becomes, in Ezra
Pound’s words, ‘a ball of light in one’s hands.’” — Jerome Rothenberg
Price: $50.00
Edition size: 1000
Number of pages: 226
ISBN: 1-887123-70-9
Dimensions: 7.5" x 10.5"
Binding: Paperback, includes CD,
cover by Ian Tyson
Distrubutors:
D. A. P. 1-800-338-2665
S. P. D. 1-800-869-7553
Doings may be ordered from the publisher. Postage and sales tax (for
shipments within New York State) are additional.
Mastercard//Visa/checks all OK.
[A limited hardback edition [38 copies] with Ian Tyson silkscreened
cover and additional print laid in will by November 1, 2005. Queries
welcome.]
Steve Clay
Granary Books
168 Mercer St. #2
New York, NY 10012
212 337-9979
212 337-9774 (fax)
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