The tablets
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Author
Publication
1999 - National Poetry Foundation, Orono, Me, Maine
Language
English
Word Count
39,500 words, Guess
Page Count
158 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL36287M
- ISBN-100943373557
- OCLC Control Number40940130
- OCLC Control Numbertablets00arma
- Library of Congress Control Number99021937
and 2 more
- LibraryThing335430
- Goodreads1098403
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3569.C57 T26 1999
Description
The Tablets takes its place as a worthy successor of the great American long poems of our century: Pound's Cantos, Williams's Paterson, Olson's Maximus, Zukofsky's "A". The first edition, published in 1968, included eight tablets. Over the years, The Tablets continued to grow. The present edition is the first to include all twenty-seven tablets that Schwerner had completed at the time of his death, along with the poet's own commentary on the work in the form of "Journals/Divagations." This edition also includes a CD of Schwerner reading extensive selections of The Tablets. The Tablets "translate" fragments of fictive Sumero-Akkadian clay tablets that are, we are told, over 4,000 years old. A "scholar-translator" provides conjectural readings, annotations, and commentary, giving the work an archeological-fragmentary structure that allows a complex openness of collage, mixed genres, and polyvocalism.
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