Jack Hirschman — A Correspondence of Americans
Jack Hirschman’s first book already contains the voices that would argue inside his work for six decades: Bronx child and comparative-literature scholar, comic performer and mourner, formal apprentice and poet who wanted language loose in the street. A Correspondence of Americans appeared in 1960 just before he moved to UCLA, carrying Hart Crane, W. C. Fields, Allen Ginsberg, jazz, painting, myth, lovers, and subway speech into a crowded American music. Los Angeles sharpened the mixture. Hirschman taught Jim Morrison, opposed the Vietnam War, lost his university post, lived in Venice, and wrote poems whose anger and typography broke with the academic world he had entered. This edition restores the complete first collection and gathers early magazine work, Los Angeles poems, and translations, making one crucial book—and the transformation that followed it—readable without pretending to replace Hirschman’s enormous later career.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Bibliography
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———. A Correspondence of Americans. Introduction by Karl Shapiro. Indiana University Press, 1960.
———. Two. Lithographs by Arnold Belkin. Zora Gallery, 1964.
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———. Dodici Arcani. Italian bilingual edition translated by Raffaella Marzano. Multimedia Edizioni, 2004.
———. Volevo Che Voi Lo Sapeste. Italian bilingual edition translated by Raffaella Marzano. Multimedia Edizioni, 2004.
———. The Big Gothic “D” Arcane. Deep Forest Press, 2004.
———. The Tijuana Bible Arcane. Deliriodendron Press, 2004.
———. The Quntzeros Arcane. Cuchulainn Press, 2004.
———. The Ditto Arcane. Sore Dove Press, 2005.
———. The Birth Arcane. Sore Dove Press, 2005.
———. The Sheer Arcane. Deliriodendron Press, 2005.
———. The Arcane of the Days of the Dead. Cuchulainn Press, 2005.
———. River of Quicksilver: Haikrostics. Sore Dove Press, 2005.
———. The Arcanes. Multimedia Edizioni, 2006.
———. Never Never Never. CappaZeta Edizioni, 2006.
———. Tina Modotti. CappaZeta Edizioni, 2008.
———. Je suis né assassiné. French translation by Gilles B. Vachon. Le Temps des Cerises / Maison de la Poésie Rhône-Alpes, 2008.
———. Look A Hear. Sore Dove Press, 2008.
———. All That’s Left. City Lights Books, 2008. French bilingual edition, Tout ce qui reste, 2011.
———. The Game and Other Poems. Beat Scene Press, 2009.
———. Ten New Arcanes & The Children. Caza de Poesia, 2009.
———. Wer Trägt Sorge. German translation by Jürgen Schneider. Edition BAES, 2010.
———. Two Words. Poems For All, 2010.
———. The Molly Arcane. Sore Dove Press, 2010.
———. The Blue Xul Arcane. Forepaw Press, 2011.
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———. How Beautiful in the Half-Light of the Full Moon Woman Is. Nicola Viviani Edizioni, 2011.
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———. Elixeevitan: A Memoir of Djuna Barnes. Bottle of Smoke Press, 2012.
———. House. Italian translation by Alessandra Bava. Edizioni Pulcinoelefante, 2012.
———. The Ulitsea Arcane. Nicola Viviani Edizioni, 2012.
———. Hirschman on Greatness. Sore Dove Press, 2012.
———. Seeing Red: Agitpropaganda and Other Works. WC Gallery, 2013.
———. Talking Leaves. Sore Dove Press, 2013.
———. That Machine. Forepaw Press, 2013.
———. The Baseball Poem. Sore Dove Press, 2013.
———. 28 Arcani. Italian bilingual edition translated by Raffaella Marzano. Multimedia Edizioni, 2014.
———. The Viet Arcane. Regent Press, 2014. French bilingual edition, 2016; Italian translation, 2017.
———. One Day. CappaZeta Edizioni, 2014.
———. The Soviet Cenotaph Arcane. German bilingual edition. Edition BAES, 2015.
———. Quintet: Five Arcanes. Omerta Publications, 2015.
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———. The Deanbro Arcane. Sore Dove Press, 2015.
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———. The Coup de Con Arcane. Bottle of Smoke Press, 2017.
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———. Soglia infinita. Revised Italian edition. Multimedia Edizioni, 2018.
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———. The Arcanes 3. Multimedia Edizioni, 2019.
———. The Arcanes 4. Multimedia Edizioni, 2021.
———, translator. Electric Iron. By Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1971.
———, translator. A Rainbow for the Christian West. By René Depestre, 1972.
———, translator. Vegetations of Splendor. By René Depestre, 1980.
———, translator. Love Is a Tree. By Antonin Artaud, 1972.
———, translator. Igitur. By Stéphane Mallarmé, 1974.
———, translator. A Fling of Two Dice Never Will Abolish Chance. By Stéphane Mallarmé, 1998.
———, translator. To Marry the Notion. By Stéphane Mallarmé, 2000.
———, translator. Kaligrunes. By Andrei Voznesensky, 1976.
———, translator. Poemas Clandestinos / Clandestine Poems. By Roque Dalton, 1984. Reprinted 1990.
———, translator. Fistibal / Slingshot. By Paul Laraque, 1989.
———, translator. Seven Poems. By Rocco Scotellaro, 1994.
———, translator. Light-Force. By Paul Celan, 1996.
———, translator. 42 Poems. By Paul Celan, 2004.
———, translator. Fist of Sun. By Ferruccio Brugnaro, 1998.
———, translator. Imaginings. By Martin Heidegger, 1999.
———, translator. Slow Lightning. By Martin Heidegger, 2001.
———, translator. The Book of Crosses. By Pier Paolo Pasolini, 2001.
———, translator. Suicide Circus. By Alexei Kruchenykh, translated with Alexander Kohav and Venyamin Tseytlin, 2001.
———, co-translator. Open Gate: An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry. With Boadiba, 2001.
———, translator. Magma. By Alfonso Gatto, 2009.
Hirschman, Jack, and Asa Benveniste. A Word in Your Season. Trigram Press, 1967.
Hirschman, Jack, and Amiri Baraka. Triptych. Caza de Poesia, 2010.