Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems
(American Poets Project #22)
- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
6 April 2006
Summary
With an ear tuned to the most delicate musical effects, an eye for exact and heterogeneous details, and a mind bent on experiment, Louis Zukofsky was preeminent among the radical Objectivist poets of the 1930s. This is the first collection to draw on the full range of Zukofsky’s poetry—containing short lyrics, versions of Catullus, and generous selections from A, his 24-part “poem of a life”—and provides a superb introduction to a modern master of whom the critic Guy Davenport has wr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931082952 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1931082952 |
| Author: | Louis Zukofsky, Charles Bernstein |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 6 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 121mm x 16mm |
| Series: | American Poets Project |
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“Zukofsky is extraordinary reading, and perhaps because it is being published in the context of ‘American’ writers, the echoes of American literary history are difficult to evade.” – Rain Taxi
“Zukofsky is extraordinary reading, and perhaps because it is being published in the context of ‘American’ writers, the echoes of American literary history are difficult to evade.”—Rain Taxi
About The Author
Louis Zukofsky
Charles Bernstein is Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of over forty books including the essays collections My Way- Speeches and Poems, A Poetics, and Content’s Dream- Essays 1975-1984 and the poetry collections With Strings, Republics of Reality- 1975-1995, and Dark City.
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