The Tablets

Author: Armand Schwerner

Publisher: National Poetry Foundation (1999)

The Tablets takes its place as a worthy successor of the great American long poems of our century: Pound's Cantos, Williams' Paterson, Olson's Maximus, Zukofsky's "A". The first edition, published in 1968, included eight tablets. Over the years, The Tablets continued to grow. The present edition is the first to include all twenty-seven tablets that Schwerner had completed at the time of his death, along with the poet's own commentary on the work in the form of "Journals/Divagations." This edition also includes a CD of Schwerner reading extensive selections of The Tablets.