Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge

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University of Alabama Press, 1998 - 397 pages
Provides a provocative and advanced introduction to the thought and writing of Louis Zukofsky, aptly described as one of the "first postmodernists"

Poet, translator, and editor, Louis Zukofsky was born in New York City in 1904. Raised to speak first Yiddish and then English, he was fascinated by language from an early age. This deep preoccupation with language--its musicality, complex constructions, and fluid meaning--later became a key component in the development of his poetry. Friend to William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, mentor to Robert Creeley and influence on many of the Language Movement poets, Zukofsky and his work stand squarely at the center of American poetry's transition from modernism to postmodernism.

Mark Scroggins advances thoughtful readings of Zukofsky's key critical essays, a wide variety of his shorter poems, and his "poem of a life," "A". He carefully situates Zukofsky within his literary and historical contexts, examining his relationship to Pound, his 1930s Marxist politics, and his sense of himself as a Jewish modernist poet. Scroggins also places Zukofsky within an ongoing tradition of American poetry, including the work of Wallace Stevens, Charles Bernstein, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, and John Taggart.

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... heart go through more exploits than a heart can , except as may be vaguely intimated from the beat and duration of any of the lines or works . " Instead , Zukofsky asserts , he will " consider the forty - four items of the canon as one ...
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... heart of his writing . Just as Pound , even before he introduced himself to London literary circles , had firmly decided that Yeats was the only living poet who mattered , the young Zukofsky had by the late 1920s clearly singled out ...
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... hearts . There will be a heart because we will send you a letter that was from me to divide it in half . [ " A " -12 , 128-29 ] This moment , like the incorporation of Jackie's letters , represents both a continuance and a furthering of ...

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Zukofsky and
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On Shakespeare A philosophy
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Mark Scroggins is a poet, biographer, and literary critic. His graduate degrees in creative writing and literature were from Cornell University. He is the author of Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge (U of Alabama P, 1998) and The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007). He has edited Upper Limit Music: The Writing of Louis Zukofsky (U of Alabama P, 1997) and a selection of uncollected prose for Prepositions+: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky (Wesleyan UP, 2000). His first full-length collection of poems, Anarchy, appeared in 2003. He has served as editor of Epoch magazine and the Diaeresis Chapbook Series of new poetry, and has an ongoing interest in poets whose writing reflects an active reconception of the modernist and late modernist tradition in verse and prose. He has published poetry and poetry reviews in a wide range of venues, including the journals Epoch, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, African American Review, To, American Letters & Commentary; and Facture, as well as the anthology The Gertrude Stein Awards In Innovative American Poetry. His critical essays and reviews have appeared in among other places West Coast Line, Shofar, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Sagetrieb, and The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry.

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TitreLouis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge
Modern and contemporary poetics
AuteurMark Scroggins
Édition2
ÉditeurUniversity of Alabama Press, 1998
Original provenant del'Université du Michigan
Numérisé14 mars 2008
ISBN0817309071, 9780817309077
Longueur397 pages
  
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