Printings of “A”
The
following lists all publications of parts of “A” prior to the first complete edition of 1978, in other words all
publications during LZ’s lifetime.
“A”-1
An “Objectivists” Anthology. NY: To Publishers,
1932. 112-117.
Pagany 3.3 (Summer 1932): 9-13.
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
Revolution of the Word. Ed. Jerome Rothenberg. NY: Seabury P,
1974.
“A”-2
An “Objectivists” Anthology. NY: To Publishers,
1932. 118-120.
Poetry 40.1 (April 1932): 26-29.
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
“A”-3
The New Review 2 (May-July 1931).
An “Objectivists” Anthology. NY: To Publishers,
1932. 121-124.
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
“A”-4
The New Review 2 (May-July 1931).
An “Objectivists” Anthology. NY: To Publishers,
1932. 124-128.
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
The Galley Sail Review 5 (Winter 1960): 8 [from “Rain blows,
light, on quiet water” to “Shimaunu-Sān, my clear star” (13-14); Li Po issue,
ed. David Rafael Wang].
The Voice That Is
Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, ed. Hayden Carruth. NY: Bantam, 1970.
America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry. Eds. Jerome Rothenberg
& George Quasha. NY: Random House,
1973. 347-350.
“A”-5
An “Objectivists” Anthology. NY: To Publishers,
1932. 128-132.
Active Anthology, ed. Ezra Pound. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
“A”-6
An “Objectivists” Anthology. NY: To Publishers,
1932. 132-152.
Active Anthology, ed. Ezra Pound. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
Agenda 3.6 (Dec. 1964): 7 [“By Way of Epigraph (from A-6): from
“The melody! The rest is accessory” to “the direction of historic and /
contemporary particulars” (24)].
“A”-7
Poetry 37.5, The “Objectivists” issue (Feb. 1931): 242-246.
An “Objectivists” Anthology. NY: To Publishers,
1932. 152-155.
Active Anthology, ed. Ezra Pound. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
Agenda 3.6 (Dec. 1964): 10-12.
“A”-8
The New Masses 24.5 (27 July 1937): 16 [“The Labor Process”
from “A”-8: from “’What I did’ said Marx” to “SOCONY will not always sign off
the air” (61-63)].
The New Masses 27.6 (3 May 1938): 14 [“March Comrades” from
“A”-8; from “Workers and farmers unite” to “May of the Freed of All the Earth”
(48-49)].
New Directions 1938. Ed. James Laughlin. Norfolk, CT: New
Directions, 1938. 93-149 [complete].
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
The Galley Sail Review 5 (Winter 1960): 9 [from “China, the one
place it could happen” to “Publishers” (94-95); Li Po issue, ed. David Rafael
Wang].
Poetry Book Society Bulletin (Dec. 1966) [from
“A”-8].
“A”-9
First Half of “A”-9 (1940) [privately published with extensive
“aids”].
Poetry 58.3 (June 1941): 128-130 [“(First half)”].
Montevallo Review 1.4 (Summer 1953) [“Love speaks (from Second Half of “A”-9)”].
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
“A”-9. future 5,
edition hansjörg mayer, 1966 [both halves with Cavalcanti’s original Italian
and a short preface, “die form,” with a brief chronological note].
“A”-10
Calendar: An Anthology of 1941 Poetry (1941) [as “Paris
(‘A’-10)”].
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
“A”-11
Botteghe Oscure 8 (1951): 326-327.
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
Helicon 3.1 (Spring 1964).
Agenda 3.6 (Dec. 1964): 13-14.
A Controversy of Poets Eds. Paris Leary &
Robert Kelly. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1965. 521-522.
The Voice That Is
Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, ed. Hayden Carruth. NY: Bantam, 1970.
“A”-12
The Beliot Poetry Journal 5.1, Chapbook 3 (1954):
1-3 [from “In the eighth month” to “The fire roared, quieted to light”
(228-231)].
Black Mt. Review 2.5 (Summer 1955):
52-53 [from “Ardent / good” to “To / Live—“ (236-237)].
The Quarterly Review of Literature 8.3 (April 1956):
193-198 [from “G.S. as an old woman” to “Have brought me” (223-228)].
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959.
Return (Aug. 1959).
Return 4 (Fall 1959).
The Galley Sail Review 5 (Winter 1960): 10
[“The best man learns of himself” to “This is all-around / Intellect”
(135-136); Li Po issue, ed. David Rafael Wang].
Agenda 3.6 (Dec. 1964): 14 [from “He who knows” to
“What else is happiness?”].
A Big Jewish Book. Ed. Jerome Rothenberg.
Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1978: 350-355 [from “There is too much air
in the air” to “Except: such were his actions” (148-154)].
“A”-13
Origin 1, second series (April 1961): 1-13, 14-30 [partita I &
ii].
Origin 3, second series (Oct. 1961): 1-14
[partita iii].
Origin 4, second series (Jan. 1962): 53-64
[partite iv & v].
The Review 10 (Jan. 1964) [“A
Version from ‘A’-13”].
The New Writing in the U.S.A. (1967) [partite iii].
Poetry Supplement, The Journal of
Creative Behavior 1.3 (July 1967): 20-21 [“’A’ Cantata 13 v”: a selection of
passages from part v arranged as a libretto in various voices].
“A” 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape,
1969; NY: Doubleday, 1969.
Inside Outer Space: New Poems of the Space
Age,
ed. Robert Vas Dias (Garden City, HY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1970): 361-362 [from
“A”-13 partitia i: from “I won’t say that ‘the world’” to “The hirer / Where
the help” (265-266)].
“A”-14
Poetry 107.1 (Oct. 1965): 1-51.
“A”-14. London: Turret Books, 1967.
“A” 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; NY: Doubleday,
1969.
Inside Outer Space: New Poems of the Space Age, ed. Robert Vas Dias
(Garden City, HY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1970): 363-366 [from “A”-14 beginning An: from “An / orange” to “all
you / have lavished” (314-317)].
“A”-15
Iyyob. London: Turret Books, 1965 [from “An / hinny”
to “In two we shadow, how hide any” (359-360)].
Poetry 108.6 (Sept. 1966): 357-375.
The American Literary Anthology 1 (June 1968): 429-436
[from “An / hinny / by / stallion” to “”the lid of the coffin” (359-366)].
“A” 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; NY: Doubleday,
1969.
Alcheringa 5 (Spring-Summer 1973): 3-4 [“The Iyyob Translation from ‘A’-15”;
from “An /
hinny” to “In two we shadow, how hide any” (359-360)].
Open Poetry: Four Anthologies of
Expanded Poems,
eds. Ronald Gross & George Quasha. Simon and Schuster. 231-242.
A Big Jewish Book. Ed. Jerome Rothenberg,
et.al. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1978 [“The Iyyob Translation from
‘A’-15”: from “An / hinny” to “In two we shadow, how hide any” (359-360)].
“A”-16
Origin 14, second series (July 1964): [back cover].
Jornal Do Commercio (22 May 1966).
“A” 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; NY: Doubleday,
1969.
“A”-17
Poetry 103.1/2 (Oct./Nov. 1963): 124-137 [“’A’-17: A Coronal”].
“A” 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; NY: Doubleday,
1969.
“A”-18
An Unearthing. Harvard Yard by the Adams House & Lowell
House Printers, May 1965 [from “An unearthing” to “it always said” (389-390)].
Poetry 110.5 (Aug. 1967): 281-303.
The American Literary Anthology 2 (1969): 389-408.
“A” 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; NY: Doubleday,
1969.
“A”-19
Poetry 111.2 (Nov. 1967): 82-111.
“A” 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; NY: Doubleday,
1969.
“A”-20
Agenda 4.3/4 (Summer 1966): 37-38.
“A” 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; NY: Doubleday,
1969.
“A”-21
Poetry 112.5 (Aug. 1968): 297-322 [Acts I & II].
Poetry 112.6 (Sept. 1968): 402-417 [Act III].
“A” 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; NY: Doubleday,
1969.
“A”-22
“Concrete Poem.” Santa
Barbara, CA: Unicorn Postcard Series I, [May] 1970 [AN ERA / ANYTIME / OF
YEAR].
Initial. NY: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1970 [“Others letters a sum
owed” to “sweet treble hold lovely—initial” (508-511)].
From “A”-22. Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate Press, 1972.
Poetry 122 (July 1973): 215-234 [from “AN ERA / ANY TIME” to
“Nature says, this wet, vine” (508-527)].
Poetry 124 (April 1974): 35-44 [from “Centuries (place) telescope
Sun” to end (527-535)].
"A" 22 & 23. NY: Grossman, 1975; London: Trigram,
1977.
“A”-23
Agenda 13.2 (Summer): 10-12 [from “(His gain mother earth—pant” to
“rain, go on in peace” (546-549)].
Transatlantic Review 52 (Autumn): 5-8 [from “An unforeseen delight a round” to “this
other time sound one” (536-538)].
Singe 5 (Winter 1977) [from “An art of honor, laud—” to “z-sited
path are but us” (560-563)].
"A" 22 & 23. NY: Grossman, 1975; London: Trigram,
1977.
“A”-24
"A" 24. NY: Grossman, 1972.
