Complete short poetry / Louis Zukofsky ; with a foreword by Robert Creeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

xiv, 365 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Summary:

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.

"Zukofsky is the American Mallarmi," writes Hugh Kenner, "and given the peculiar intentness of the American preoccupation with language--obsessive, despite what you may read in the newspapers--his work is more disorienting by far than his exemplar's ever was. Mallarmi had a long poetic tradition from which to deviate into philology. Zukofsky received a philological tradition, which he raised to a higher power."

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0801856566

9780801856563

0801841038

9780801841033

OCLC:

37756682