Jackson Mac Low
REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: 1938-1985
by Jackson Mac Low
“There is always a remarkable compassion, and humor, in any writing of Jackson Mac Low's, even in the intentionally random, just as there are ways and ways of jumping off or in or on — "Antic Quatrains," for example. Now in his classic phase, so to speak, albeit as much a charming newcomer as ever, Jackson Mac Low makes adamant sense and sense adamant, simply the two-way street of either system or existence — but with love, with intelligence, with all you can ever think it is." – Robert Creeley
TWENTIES
by Jackson Mac Low
The master of chance operations has composed 100 separate poems intuitively and spontaneously. The title, Twenties, refers to the poems 'physical form: each has twenty lines, divided into five nonmetrical quatrains. Though written by largely "subjective" methods, these poems both problematize the subject from which they proceed and empower each reader to become a coproducer of their meaning.