Seaweed

by Armand Schwerner

Schwerner's early poetry collection was published by Black Sparrow Press. A limited edition of 125 hardcover copies signed by the artist and 750 paper wrappers were published.

Genres: Poetry

83 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1969

About the author

Armand Schwerner was an avant-garde Jewish-American poet. His most famous work, Tablets, is a series of poems which claim to be reconstructions of ancient Sumero-Akkadian inscriptions, complete with lacunae and "untranslatable" words.
Schwerner was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and his family moved to the United States when he was nine years old. He attended Columbia University (B.A. 1950, M.A. 1964) and taught at universities in the New York City area until his retirement in 1998.

Reviews

[Abraham · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very cool edition of a not so great book of poems by an acolyte of George Oppen. This collection opens well but then degenerates into the annoying experimentalism of the over-intellectualized 1960s poets.