The world of Leon
By: introduction by Donald Hall ; cover by Leon
Contributors: Hall, Donald, 1928-2018, writer of introduction; Big Sky Books
Series: Big sky -- no. 7; Big sky -- no. 7.
Publisher: Big Sky
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Bolinas, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Copyright date: 1974
Subjects: 18.06 Anglo-American literature
Description: Leon without question must rank among the foremost contemporary poets. He excels perhaps in his exquisite attention to the medium itself, exploiting with confidence but without distortion the valid intricacies of syntax and image. If there is one figure who is a key to the whole, it is Leon, standing as he does at the crossroads of Dada, traditionalism, Pop Art, romanticism, Cubism, lettrism, classicism, Marxism, Hard Edge, militancy, Richard Kostelanetz, Vorticism, vogeurism, chauvinism, Imagism, symbolism, neo-classicism, Zen, neo-Elyzabethanism, minimalism, Maoism, and Thomistic Platonism. --Donald Hall.
Notes: LC copy inscribed by the author.
Table of contents: title: The saint takes a holiday; title: Guess who's coming to dinner; title: Smiles; title: Leon's tune; title: The secret of Jane Bowles; title: The banana boat; title: Wonderful; title: Alma; title: Wheeling; title: [Untitled, first line]: Bridges cause dizziness; title: Beautiful music; title: Peter Coddle; title: DNA; title: Takes place in school; title: Poem by the ape man; title: Surrogate illumination; title: The funny typewriter; title: Good to nice; title: A pardonable crime; title: Crossing Staten Island ferry; title: Waiting for photo; title: The infinity of always; title: Requiem for a paperweight; title: Leon Roosevelt's lament; title: For W.C. Fields; title: Evening prayer; title: Echo of cheer; title: The wren; title: The astronut; title: The spirit lingers; title: A child's question; title: A heaven for dogs; title: Massage at midnight; title: Anecdote of canna; title: Bog jounce; title: I feel free; title: Waves of particles; title: Parody of Aram; title: Splits; title: The child; title: Stiff upper lip; title: [Untitled, first line]: If things are; title: Metaphors of a magnifico; title: Valley candle; title: Variations on a theme by William Carlos William; title: [Untitled, first line]: Sometimes, when the wall of a house stand in the light of noon, it is as; title: Ideas in search of words; title: Honeymooners; title: The sweetie pie pharmacist; title: The incredible string; title: Right one; title: Wives' tricks; title: Similes; title: A knickerbocker; title: Two views of Fuji; title: Western Union; title: A Pavlov.