Description: Paperback.A major work by an essential American poet, published in full for the first time. Available again for the first time since 1978-and complete in one volume for the first time ever-Charles Reznikoff'sTestimonyis a lost masterpiece, a leg- endary book that stands alongside Louis Zukofsky's "A" and William Carlos Williams'sPatersonas a milestone of modern American poetry. Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts, Reznikoff's book sets forth a stark panorama of late- 19th- and early 20th-century America-the underside of the Gilded Age, beset by racism and casual violence, poverty and disease-in a radically stripped-down lan- guage of almost unbearable intensity. This edition also includes Reznikoff 's prose studies for the poem, unavailable to readers since the 1930s, and a new introduction by essayist Eliot Weinberger.
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Book Title: Testimony : the United States 1885-1915: Recitative
Publisher: Godine Publisher, David R.
Item Length: 9 in
Publication Year: 2015
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 1.6 in
Author: Charles Reznikoff
Genre: Poetry, History
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Topic: United States / 19th Century, Modern / 20th Century, American / General
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Item Width: 5.8 in
Number of Pages: 590 Pages
