WORDS ND ENDS FROM EZ by Jackson Mac Low

Sun & Moon Press, 1989, First edition, 93 pp., 5 1/2" X 8", Softcover

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Words nd Ends from Ez presents writing as the act of reading--in this case Mac Low's reading through of Pound's The Cantos. By applying his "diastic chance selection method" and using as an index the letters EZRA POUND to generate words and the ends of words, Mac Low re-creates Pound's text, making of it a ruin whose parts force us to imagine the missing whole, in effect MAKING IT NEW. A major work of poetic criticism, Mac Low's text will take its place alongside such classics of the genre as Olson's Call Me Ishmael and Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson.