Selected poems / Louis Zukofsky ; Charles Bernstein, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978.

Contributor:

Bernstein, Charles, 1950-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

American poets project ; 22.

American poets project ; 22

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvii, 172 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Library of America, [2006]

Summary:

With an ear tuned to the most delicate musical effects, an eye for exact and heterogeneous details, and a mind bent on experiment, Louis Zukofsky was preeminent among the radical Objectivist poets of the 1930s. This is the first collection to draw on the full range of Zukofsky's poetry-containing short lyrics, versions of Catullus, and generous selections from "A", his 24-part "poem of a life"-and provides a superb introduction to a modern master.

Contents:

I Sent Thee Late (1922) 1

from 55 Poems (1923-1935)

from Poem beginning "The" 3

First Movement: "And out of olde bokes, in good faith" 3

Fifth Movement: Autobiography 5

Half-dozenth Movement: Finale, and After 9

from 29 Poems

2. "Not much more than being" 11

3. "Cocktails" 12

5. Ferry 14

from 29 Songs

5. It's a gay li - ife 15

8. "Happier, happier, now" 15

16. "Crickets'" 16

21. "Snows' night's winds on the window rattling" 17

23. "The Immediate Aim" 17

24. This Fall, 1933 20

from Anew (1935-1944)

1. che di lor suona su nella tua vita 22

2. "One lutenist played look; your thought was drink:" 22

9. "For you I have emptied the meaning" 23

10. "What are these songs" 23

12. "It's hard to see but think of a sea" 24

20. "The lines of this new song are nothing" 25

21. "Can a mote of sunlight defeat its purpose" 25

22. Catullus viii 26

from Some Time (1940-1956)

A Song for the Year's End 27

from So That Even a Lover 29

And Without 30

from Songs of Degrees 30

from Barely and widely (1956-1958)

Barely/and/widely 33

4: A Valentine 34

11: Head Lines 36

12: 4 Other Countries 36

from I's (pronounced eyes) (1937-1960)

(Ryokan's scroll) 74

Peri Poietikes 75

I's (pronounced eyes) 76

To Friends, for Good Health 80

from "A"

1 (1928) 81

7 (1928-1930) 86

9 (first half 1938-1940; second half 1948-1950) 90

11 (1950) 96

from 12 (1950-1951) 97

from 15 (1964) 114

16 (1963) 116

from 21 (1967) 117

23 (1973-1974) 119

Uncollected

A Foin Lass Bodders (1940) 152

from Bottom: On Shakespeare (1947-1960)

Julia's Wild 155

from Catullus (1958-1969)

5 156

7 156

8 157

51 158

70 158

76 158

112 160

from 80 Flowers (1974-1978)

"Heart us invisibly thyme time" 161

Honesty 161

Liveforever 162

Dogwood 162

Raspberry 162

Thyme 163

Vines 163

Weeds 164

Zinnia 164

from Complete Short Poetry

Gamut (1978) 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1931082952

OCLC:

62889152

Publisher Number:

9781931082952