Heh, looks like I bought this book at a sale around 1998 (for like $7) and never got around to reading it. It’s not that I don’t enjoy Reznikoff, but I just don’t like omnibus books… I prefer reading the books separately for some reason or other.
Anyway, this is the stuff. THE STUFF.
There’s portions that are based on the Torah, though, and those don’t really er make much sense to me, because I have no idea who all those characters that Reznikoff is riffing on are.
There’s only a handful of pages of Reznikoff’s recitative stuff here, though — his two volumes of recitatives based on testimonies are fantastic, but aren’t included here.
This might be his most famous poem? As these things go?
Anyway, I give the book all my thumbs up.
Poems 1918-1975 (1988) by Reznikoff, Charles (Buy used, 4.48 on Goodreads)