A test of poetry / Louis Zukofsky; foreword by Robert Creeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978. Selections. 2000 ; Works. v. 1.

The Wesleyan centennial edition of the complete critical writings of Louis Zukofsky ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Collections.

Poetry.

Genre:

Collections.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 165 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hanover ; London : Wesleyan University Press : Published by University Press of New England, [2000]

Summary:

By juxtaposing several translations of the same passage from Homer, an elegy from Ovid and lines from Herrick that read like an adaptation of Ovid, or a 15th-century poem about a rooster and a contemporary poem about white chickens, Louis Zukofsky has established a means for judging the values of poetic writing. A wonderful education for the fledgling poet, this handbook, first published in 1948, best elucidates Zukofsky's "objectivist" premises for recognizing value in specific instances of poetry.

Contents:

The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire

Le Flaneur

The Stroller

Il Y A

There Is

Le Poete Ressuscite

The Poet Ressurected

& Cie

And Co..

Notes:

Originally published: Brooklyn : Objectivist Press, 1948.

ISBN:

0819564028

9780819564023

OCLC:

42603169