Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet
“Carroll F. Terrell’s careful editing of this volume . . . transforms the difficulties the poet and thinker proposed into pleasurable clarities. The bibliography of critical pieces on Zukofsky is especially useful.”
—Michael Heller, New York Times Book Review
“Terrell’s double aim, to bring new readers to Zukofsky’s work and to the world of controversy which has grown around it, succeeds admirably. Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet will be a pivotal critical text….”
—Alan Young, Times Literary Supplement
Contributions by Robert Creeley, Charles Tomlinson, Hugh Seidman, Barry Ahearn, Neil Baldwin, Don Byrd, Hugh Kenner, Peter Quartermain, M. L. Rosenthal, John Taggart, Cid Corman, Guy Davenport, Burton Hatlen, Celia Zukofsky, and others. Includes previously unpublished early poems by Zukofshy, a year-by-year bibliography of works by Zukofsky prepared by Celia Zukofsky, and an annotated bibliography of critical work on Zukofsky, 1956-1978.
Contents
The Man
Carroll F. Terrell, “Louis Zukofsky: An Eccentric Profile”
Robert Creeley, “For L.Z.”
Charles Tomlinson, “Objectivists: Zukofsky and Oppen, a Memoir”
Hugh Seidman, “Louis Zukofsky at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (1958-61)
Fielding Dawson, “A Memoir of Louis Zukofsky”
Barry Ahearn, “The Adams Connection”
Neil Baldwin, “Zukofsky, Williams, and The Wedge: Toward a Dynamic Convergence”
The Poet
Louis Zukofsky, “Discarded Poems”
Don Byrd, “The Shape of Zukofsky’s Canon”
Hugh Kenner, “Two Pieces on ‘A’”
Peter Quartermain, “‘Not at All Surprised by Science’: Louis Zukofsky’s First Half of ‘A’-9”
M. L. Rosenthal, “Zukofsky: ‘All My Hushed Sources”
Harold Schimmel, “Zuk. Yehoash David Rex”
John Taggart, “Zukofsky’s ‘Mantis’”
The Thinker
Louis Zukofsky, “[Sincerity and Objectification]”
L.S. Dembo, “Louis Zukofsky: Objectivist Poetics and the Quest for Form”
Cid Corman, “In the Event of Words”
Jonathan Greene, “Zukofsky’s Ferdinand”
The Translator
Burton Hatlen, “Zukofsky as Translator”
Guy Davenport, “Zukofsky’s English Catullus”
David M. Gordon, “Three Notes on Zukofsky’s Catullus I ‘Catullus viii’: 1939-1960″
The Testament
Celia Zukofsky, “Year by Year Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky”
Marcella Booth, “The Zukofsky Papers: The Cadence of a Life”
Carroll F. Terrell, “A Bibliography of Works about Louis Zukofsky with Extended Commentary”