The Complete Stein Poems by Jackson Mac Low - ISBN: 9780262552868
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Computer-generated poems remixing Gertrude Stein, a surprising, creative encounter.

The Complete Stein Poems

1998–2003

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    672 pages

  • Release Date

    9 September 2025

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Summary

A landmark publication in computer-generated poetry drawn from the works of Gertrude Stein.

The Stein poems of Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004) were written between 1998 and 2003. Comprising more than 500 pages of text, this edited series of 161 poems—most of them never published—is the poet’s last great work, composed during the final years of a lifetime of prolific creation.

The raw material of each poem was produced through Mac Low’s diastic text-selection method of reading thro…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262552868
ISBN-10:0262552868
Author:Jackson Mac Low, Michael O'Driscoll
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:672
Release Date:9 September 2025
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 203mm
Series:Hardcopy
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Critics Review

“In his inventive interactions with Gertrude Stein on one side and his computer on the other, Mac Low brought Stein’s modernist word composition into the digital twenty-first century. Michael O’Driscoll’s commendable edition now makes these marvelous works fully accessible to artists and scholars.”—Tyrus Miller, Distinguished Professor of Art History and English, University of California, Irvine“A must for anybody interested in experimental poetry.”—Rosmarie Waldrop, poet, translator, editor“‘What are Masterpieces?’ The Stein Poems are the culminating achievement of Mac Low’s ‘writingways,’ a refunctioning of Stein’s oeuvre by algorithmic and human decisions.”—Barrett Watten, poet and critic, Wayne State University“Jackson Mac Low’s love affair with Gertude Stein’s minimalist language alchemy defies comparison. This collection is a cut-up of echoes with teeth, tenacity, homey wit, and aural revelation. Viva the excesses of the Post Modernism Liberation Experimental Revolution!”—Anne Waldman, Poet, Founder and Artistic Director, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Summer Writing Program, Naropa University

About The Author

Jackson Mac Low

Jackson Mac Low was a leading member of the Fluxus group, an innovator of procedural poetics and liminal compositional forms, and a progenitor of the Language Poets and other conceptual artists.

Michael O’Driscoll is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Along with Anne Tardos, he is the coeditor of Jackson Mac Low’s The Complete Light Poems.

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