The Great Pisser

Some books don't age or age slowly. This book of poems was first offered more than two decades ago to a critic and scholar as a book about the Twentieth Century. He disliked it and called it mere rant.Now twenty-two or twenty-three years later I am surprised very often by the topicality of many poems that Alicia Zukofsky wrote so quickly at the time. They are angry poems in many cases some are tender all are pensive in this or that way.- Karen Wittstock