| Title | : | Bottom: On Shakespeare |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (218 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520048512 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 470 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1988-04-25 |
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Written between 1947 and 1960 and first published in 1963, the prose work in the first of these two volumes reflects Louis Zukofsky's ongoing obsession with Shakespeare--whose plays he had first seen performed in Yiddish--and is central to understanding Zukofsky's work. Tracing the themes of knowledge, love and physical vision ("the eyes have it") through both Shakespeare's plays and the poetry, Bottom: On Shakespeare is more than a compendious act of homage by one poet to another. In effect, it lays out Zukofsky's poetics and theory of knowledge on a grand scale, tracing his themes through the whole of Western culture, from the Classical Greeks through William Carlos Williams. The second volume of Bottom: On Shakespeare consists of Celia Thaew Zukofsky's spare operatic setting of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play in which Zukofsky saw Shakespeare rewriting the classic plots and tropes of the Odyssey. The Wesleyan edition features a new foreword by Bob Perelman.
Editorial : "Bottom: On Shakespeare speaks and sings of a proportion: love is to reason as the eyes are to the mind…It may be the most important book written since the invention of the motion picture medium." (Stan Brakhage, Film Culture)
Scott has been given a lot of the credit for this work, but it was really Brown who put the wheels in motion and who gave Scott the latitude to train and perfect his little brigade. They fail to say whether the photo is a front or back view of a sign. I look forward to reading his future novels. There is good selection of his shorter poems and also a substantial sampling of the Cantos, his epic work.
Be aware that the design of the book is annoying; no index, no arrangment, no apparent plan of any kind.
But after all that you are left with the poetry and you can skip the design questions and read the poems. Blair has created. Needing medical care for himself and Nicholai but on the run from all the law enforcement agencies because he thinks that somebody has misinformed and misled them, Jake can't turn to any hospital or medical facility. This review appeared in the IEEE Network Magazine's Nov. There was enough introductory information to entice the young reader t
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