Complete Short Poetry
Published on 6. May 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
365 pages
978-0-8018-5656-3 (ISBN)
Description
The American poet Louis Zukofsky received little public attention during his lifetime, though he was regarded by his literary contemporaries as one of the finest writers in the United States. Now in paperback, "Complete Short Poetry" gathers all of Zukofsky's poetry outside his 800-page magnum opus entitled "A" - including work that appeared in "All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1964", the experimental transliteration (with Celia Zukofsky) of Catullus, the limited edition "80 Flowers", as well as several fugitive pieces never before collected.
Reviews / Votes
"Louis Zukofsky is one of the most important poets of my generation. These poems are absolute clarification, crystal cabinets full of air and angels."--Kenneth Rexroth "With a fleck of the bright future a whole world can again be imagined and the music picks up again. I hear a new music of verse stretching out into the future."--William Carlos Williams "The appearance of his short poems in one volume is a major event."--'World Literature Today' "The publication of this handsome edition of...'Complete Short Poetry' is important in a number of ways. It facilitates the availability of the complete Zukofsky canon, thereby potentially prompting renewed critical interest in the poet. And, as the choice of Robert Creeley as author of the volume's foreword reminds us, Zukofsky was an important influence on those American poets of the 1950s and 1960s whose work continues to bear an uneasy and illuminating relationship to the canon of American verse."--'Magill's Literary Annual 1992' "This volume is essential for anyone hoping to understand the whole modern movement, especially the Objectivist branch."--'Beloit Literary Journal'More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Hardcover edition published in 1991
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
690 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-5656-3 (9780801856563)
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Persons
Louis Zukofsky was born in New York City in 1904 and lived there nearly all his life. A close friend and younger contemporary of William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, and Ezra Pound, Zukofsky was a poet of ceaseless experiment, as well as a fiction writer, translator, essayist, anthologist, critic, scholar, and teacher. He died in 1978.