This edition also includes Reznikoff's prose studies for the poem, unavailable to readers since the s, and a new introduction by critic and essayist Eliot Weinberger. The United States, Recitative, Volume 2. Charles Reznikoff. Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony: The United States () Recitative, published in two volumes by Black Sparrow in , is pages of short poem-sections extracted from court-room witness statements. It is thirty years from perspectives, or at different points run into lines. Testimony by Charles Reznikoff Book Summary A major work by an essential American poet, published in full for the first time. Available again for the first time since 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.
TESTIMONY: VOLUME I: The United States () Recitative. Reznikoff, Charles. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, See all items by Charles Reznikoff. By The Way Books; Fernglade Dr Richmond TX Mail Order and Internet Only Member IOBA Phone () ;. Reznikoff began composing Testimony while working for a legal encyclopedia. He read accounts of thousands of court cases in the United States, and some of these cases slowly condensed into poems. Testimony relies upon cases tried between 18and is thus filled with the violent distempers of an industrial age. Yet the reader would not. Testimony: The United States, Recitative|Charles Reznikoff, Laurier blanc|Janet Fitch, Top 50 Science Skills for GED Success, Student Text Only (GED Calculators)|Robert (Bob) Mitchell, How to Train Your Dragon: How to Ride a Dragon's Storm|Cressida Cowell.
He first turned his findings into a prose work (also called Testimony) in , before beginning Testimony: The United States, – Recitative sometime in the s, the masterpiece he would spend the remaining decades of his life expanding and revising. Its unique structure deserves a more thorough investigation than I can provide, but worth noting is Reznikoff’s use of chronology (–, –, –, –), geography (North, South, West), and category. Testimony: The United States Recitative A document-poem drawn from the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts, Charles Reznikoff’s book-length Objectivist work sets forth a stark panorama of late 19th and early 20th century America. Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony: The United States () Recitative, published in two volumes by Black Sparrow in , is pages of short poem-sections extracted from court-room witness statements. It is thirty years from perspectives, or at different points run into lines.
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