Introduction to Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems - Jacket 30.
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Reading Zukofsky's 80 Flowers by Michele J. Leggott. 80 Flowers was published in an edition of 80 in 1978, soon after Louis Zukofsky's death, and left at that. I didn't own any of the 80. I first tracked down a library copy of Leggott's book not long after its own publication in 1989, but I didn't read it, really, just her citations.Like Stuart Gilbert in 1930, under cover of criticism.
The objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. They were mainly American and were influenced by, among others, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.The basic tenets of objectivist poetics as defined by Louis Zukofsky were to treat the poem as an object, and to emphasize sincerity, intelligence, and the poet's ability to look clearly at.
Louis Zukofsky. Born: 23-Jan-1904 Birthplace: New York City Died: 12-May-1978 Location of death: Port Jefferson, NY Cause of death: unspecified. Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet. Nationality: United States Executive summary: Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement. Father: Paul.
Richard Powers is an accomplished novelist whose five (soon to be six) novels plumb the controversies, latent and teeming, inherent to our highly technological milieu. I daresay that, for most of my readers, Louis Zukofsky, though an equally accomplished poet, will be a somewhat less recognizable, and more inaccessible, figure.
Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays, published first in 1967 and then in an expanded edition in 1981, was a definitive set of critical statements by Louis Zukofsky, one of the most important poets of the 20th century. These central expositions of Zukofsky's own poetics, and enduring examinations of the art of poetry, range over the.
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that, if you are here, the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful. It by no means consists in rushing prematurely to a showy feat that shall catch the eye and satisfy spectators.