154 Forties

Poetry. This is the first publication of the complete series of Jackson Mac Low's "Forties" poems. Written and revised from 1990 to 1999 with a method Mac Low called "gathering"��here he took into the poems words, phrases, and other kinds of word strings, and sometimes sentences, that he saw, heard, or thought of while writing the drafts��he poems include detailed markings of caesural spacing, timing, compound words (many neologistic), and metrical stress. Each of the poems adhere to what Mac Low termed "fuzzy verse form": eight stanzas, each comprising five lines (hence the form's name): three moderately long lines, followed by a very long line, and then a short line.