Jackson Mac Low: Lines-Letters-Words

Born in Chicago in 1922, Jackson Mac Low created drawings in tandem with his seven-decade-long poetry career. Through drawing, Mac Low experimented with chance procedures and automatism, allowing form and process to shape content before these themes entered his poems.

Published to accompany Lines-Letters-Words the first comprehensive exhibition of visual works by Mac Low, this publication includes drawings that span the artist’s practice from the 1940s to the 2000s. Tracing the arc of his creative output specifically through the lens of drawing and handwriting, this volume provides new insight into Mac Low’s oeuvre outside the world of poetry.