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Publication Date: 15-Mar-08 | ISBN: 9781844714421 | Trim Size: 216 x 140 mm | Extent: 200pp | Format: Paperback

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SYNOPSIS

I Am You collects three new poems: “The Aim of All Nature Is Beauty,” which Tardos wrote soon after the death or her husband and frequent collaborator Jackson Mac Low; “Letting Go,” a 100-page poem which combines memoir and self-examination in the face of loss, and the 50-page “The Letter: A Bloodbath.” These works deal frankly with aspects of grief and recovery, celebration and life building in poems of haunting, fragmentary beauty, which both reflect and record anger, hope and love, and provide us with a testament to a partnership built around creative compulsion, fun, and linguistic exultation.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements; Introduction by Marie Buck; The Aim of All Nature Is Beauty; The Nature of This Lecture Is by John Beauty; Fat Accomplice; Letting Go; The Letter: Bloodbath

PRAISE FOR THIS BOOK

“A brilliant and disturbing masterpiece – an unpicking of elegy and its inevitable entanglements with ‘autobiography’. Its expression is supra-active and fast paced. it scans form and implications of the living and the dead. it exhumes and lays to rest. it left me stunned.” —John Kinsella

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS BOOKS

“In her marvelous new collection, Tardos plays with every possible verbal/visual/musical relationship: she invents narratives, records ‘real’ events (as in the case of 9-11 and her recent bout with surgery), and can work magic with the relationship of word to image, word to musical score, with multilingualism, and with the tension between high art and ‘ordinary’ signage.” —Marjorie Perloff

“Uxudo, a gift from technology, illuminated manuscript. Illuminated not as in ‘illustrated,’ but luminous, interactive in a sense that Blake would have understood. Or Zukofsky: that language is eyes. Ears, echoes. That, in fact, language itself, in our time certainly, must always be plural: a system of differences, midrashim to an Ur-text that never existed but perpetually surrounds us.” —Ron Silliman

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Anne Tardos is a poet and visual artist. She is the author of several books of poetry and the multimedia performance work and radio play Among Men. A selection of her readings and performances (many with Jackson Mac Low) can be heard on the University of Pennsylvania’s web site PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/ pennsound/x/Tardos.html and her own site is www.annetardos.com