Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet

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Louis Zukofsky : Man and Poet (1979)

“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.”

鈥擬ichael 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….”

鈥擜lan 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 Includes previously unpublished early poems by Zukofshy, a year-by-year bibliography of works by Zukofsky prepared by Celia Zukofsky, and an annotated bibliography of critical work on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, 鈥淟ouis Zukofsky: An Eccentric Profile鈥

Robert Creeley, 鈥淔or L.Z.鈥

Charles Tomlinson, 鈥淥bjectivists: Zukofsky and Oppen, a Memoir鈥

Hugh Seidman, 鈥淟ouis Zukofsky at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (1958-61)

Fielding Dawson, 鈥淎 Memoir of Louis Zukofsky鈥

Barry Ahearn, 鈥淭he Adams Connection鈥

Neil Baldwin, 鈥淶ukofsky, Williams, and The Wedge: Toward a Dynamic Convergence鈥

The Poet

Louis Zukofsky, 鈥淒iscarded Poems鈥

Don Byrd, 鈥淭he Shape of Zukofsky鈥檚 Canon鈥

Hugh Kenner, 鈥淭wo Pieces on 鈥楢’鈥

Peter Quartermain, 鈥溾楴ot at All Surprised by Science鈥: Louis Zukofsky鈥檚 First Half of 鈥楢鈥-9

M. L. Rosenthal, 鈥淶ukofsky: 鈥楢ll My Hushed Sources鈥

Harold Schimmel, 鈥淶uk. Yehoash David Rex鈥

John Taggart, 鈥淶ukofsky鈥檚 鈥楳antis’鈥

The Thinker

Louis Zukofsky, 鈥淸Sincerity and Objectification]鈥

L.S. Dembo, 鈥淟ouis Zukofsky: Objectivist Poetics and the Quest for Form鈥

Cid Corman, 鈥淚n the Event of Words鈥

Jonathan Greene, 鈥淶ukofsky鈥檚 Ferdinand鈥

The Translator

Burton Hatlen, 鈥淶ukofsky as Translator鈥

Guy Davenport, 鈥淶ukofsky鈥檚 English Catullus鈥

David M. Gordon, 鈥淭hree Notes on Zukofsky鈥檚 Catullus I 鈥楥atullus viii鈥: 1939-1960鈥

The Testament

Celia Zukofsky, 鈥淵ear by Year Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky鈥

Marcella Booth, 鈥淭he Zukofsky Papers: The Cadence of a Life鈥

Carroll F. Terrell, 鈥淎 Bibliography of Works about Louis Zukofsky with Extended Commentary鈥