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“If this collection fails to put Reznikoff more firmly on the scene, then I do not know what will.”
— Year’s Work in English Studies
“Another solid entry in the Man and Poet Series.”
— Modem Literature
Contributions by Marie Syrkin, David Ignatow, Eliot Weinberger, Mary Oppen, Harvey Shapiro, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Auster, Michael Heller, L. S. Dembo, Linda W. Wagner, Linda Simon, Charles Tomlinson, George Oppen, Peter Quartermain, and others. Includes a selection of previously unpublished early poetry and an annotated bibliography of works about Reznikoff, 1920-1983.
Contents
The Man
Marie Syrkin, “Charles: A Memoir”
David Ignatow, “Charles Reznikoff: A Memoir”
Eliot Wienberger, “Another Memory of Reznikoff”
Mary Oppen, “Walking with Charles Reznikoff”
Harvey Shapiro, “Remembering Charles Reznikoff”
Anthony Rudolf, “Thinking of Rezzy”
Ruth Whitman, “Charles Reznikoff: A Person Encounter”
Charles Reznikoff, “A Talk with L.S. Dembo”
Charles Reznikoff and Reinhold Schiffer, “The Poet in His Milieu”
Janet Sternburg and Alan Ziegler, “A Conversation with Charles Reznikoff”
The Poet
Allen Ginsberg, “Reznikoff’s Poetics”
Paul Auster, “The Decisive Moment”
Michael Heller, “The Modernity of Charles Reznikoff”
Anne Stevenson with Michael Farley, “Charles Reznikoff in His Tradition”
L.S. Dembo, “Objectivist or Jew: Charles Reznikoff in the Diaspora”
Randolph Chilton, “Charles Reznikoff: Objectivist Witness”
Linda W. Wagner, “Charles Reznikoff, Master of the Miniature”
Linda Simon, “Reznikoff: The Poet as Witness”
Robert Franciosi, “A Story of Vocation: Charles Reznikoff’s Rhythms (1918)”
Tom Sharp, “Reznikoff’s Nine Plays”
Charles Tomlinson, “Of Charles Reznikoff”
George Oppen, “Facsimile Letter to Milton Hindus”
Peter Quartermain, “Exploring the Mere: A Note on Charles Reznikoff’s Shorter Poems”
Sylvia Rothchild, “From a Distance and Up Close: Charles Reznikoff and the Holocaust”
Janet Sutherland, “Reznikoff and His Sources”
Milton Hindus, “Epic, ‘Action-Poem,’ Cartoon: Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony: The United States: 1885-1915”
The Prose Writer
Eric Homberger, “Charles Reznikoff’s Family Chronicle: Saying Thank You and I’m Sorry”
Alan Lelchuk, “Against the Grain: Reznikoff’s The Manner Music”
The Testament
Lionel Trilling, “Genuine Writing”
Louis Zukofsky, “Program: ‘Objectivists’ 1931”
Milton Hindus, “‘…And Ask for a Poem’”
Hayden Carruth, “The Tide Comes In”
Charles Reznikoff, “Entries for Encyclopaedia Judaica”
Linda Simon, “An Annotated Bibliography of Works About Charles Reznikoff: 1920-1983”