LZ Online

 

For readers new to Zukofsky, the following links offer good places to start:

 

Scroggins, Mark. “Louis Zukofsky.”
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/zukofsky/zukofsky.htm
[A biographical essay. The Modern American Poetry page on LZ also offers diverse commentary on “To my wash-stand” and “Mantis”].

Benz, Jim. “Louis Zukofsky and the Objectified Poem: Semantic Properties of Formal Poetic Structure.”
american-poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/louis_zukofsky_and_the_objectified_poem
[The first of a five-part series of short articles on LZ’s poetics followed by a detailed consideration of “A”-9, which serves as a very useful introduction to LZ’s poetry. The other articles are: “LZ’s Sincere Perception of Language,” “An Introduction to LZ’s ‘A’-9,” “Objectification of LZ’s ‘A’-9” and ”LZ’s ‘A’-9, Strophe 9”].

Poetry Foundation. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=7665.
[An introductory article with links to an overview of LZ’s publications in Poetry magazine with slideshow of images and to an introductory talk by Mark Scroggins emphasizing LZ’s Jewish context and relations].

 

Online essays, papers and talks on LZ

 

Amato, Joe. “Richard Powers after Louis Zukofsky: A Prospectus of the Sky” (1997).
www.altx.com/ebr/ebr5/amato.htm.

Beyers, Chris. “Louis Zukofsky in Kentucky in history.” College Literature (2003).
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_200310/ai_n9317614.

Bernstein, Charles. “Introduction to Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems” (American Poets Project of the Library of America, 2006). jacketmagazine.com/30/z-bernstein.html.

Eastman, Andrew. “Estranging the Classic: The Zukofskys’ Catullus.” La Revue LISA VII.2 (U of Caen, France 2009).
http://lisa.revues.org/index312.html [excellent consideration of Catullus].

Filreis, Al. “Poem Talk #22 on ‘Anew 12.’” Moderated by Al Filreis with Charles Bernstein, Wystan Curnow and Bob Perlman. PennSound.
poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com/2009/09/just-begun-to-learn-poemtalk-22.html

Finkelstein, Norman and Harvey Shapiro. “Discussion on Objectivist Poets.” Moderated by Bob Perelman. PennSound (2005). writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Finkelstein-and-Shapiro.html.

Foley, Jack. “Taking Liberties: Louis Zukofsky.” Contemporary Poetry Review (2007). www.cprw.com/Foley/zukofsky.htm [review of Selected Poems].

Gallagher, Ryan. “Notes on Translating: Beginning with some thoughts on Zukofsky’s Shakespeare and Catullus.” Exquisite Corpse 9 (Summer 2001).
http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_9/critiques/gallagher.htm

Gilonis, Harry. “’Close eye and gross sigh", or, "Art is Art, and Everything Else is Everything Else" (2001). http://www.bbk.ac.uk/readings-old/r1/gillones.html. [more a talk with than directly about the first half of “A”-9].

Grenier, Robert. “Memorial Day Meditation on two lines from Louis Zukofsky’s ‘A’-22.” Eclipse. http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/projects/MEMORIAL/memorial.html.

Heller, Michael. “Lecture on Louis Zukofsky at Naropa Institute,” 2 parts. PennSound (1987). http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.php.

Hoffman, Eric. “An Examination of Louis Zukofsky.” Mental Contagion (Aug. and July 2005). [two-part overview].
http://www.mentalcontagion.com/mcarchive/examinations/examinations0507.html
http://www.mentalcontagion.com/mcarchive/examinations/examinations0508.html

Ivry, Jonathan. “A Poet.” Nextbook (2009) [overview]. http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=3465&page=comments.

Jones, Peter. “Louis Zukofsky.” Poetry Nation (London) 5 (1975).
www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=6388.

Lyons, Graham. “Citation as Explanation: Walter Benjamin and Louis Zukofsky, Colporteurs.” Jacket 36 (2008). jacketmagazine.com/36/lyons-benjamin-zukofsky.shtml

Niedecker, Lorine. “The Poetry of Louis Zukofsky.” Quarterly Review of Literature (1956).
epc.buffalo.edu/authors/niedecker/essay1.html.

___.      “A Review of Louis Zukofsky’s A Test of Poetry.” Capital Times (Madison, WI) 18 December 1948.
epc.buffalo.edu/authors/niedecker/essay3.html.

O’Leary, Peter. “The Energies of Words.” Poetry Online (2009). www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=181672 [an account and critical examination of the 1931 “Objectivists” issue of Poetry].

Perelman, Bob. “Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves Through Modernism.” PennSound (2000). writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Perelman.html.

Rother, James. “An Occluded Splendor.” Contemporary Poetry Review (2001).
www.cprw.com/index.htm [long, rambling essay more or less on All; only available via subscription].

Scroggins, Mark. “A Note on [Oppen’s] ‘The Lighthouses.” Big Bridge (2008). 
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/OP-SCR.HTM [on Oppen’s poem as a response to LZ].

Twitchell-Waas, Jeffrey. “Louis Zukofsky.” Review of Contemporary Fiction (Fall 2002). findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3544/is_3_22/ai_n28954880/ [critical overview of the fiction].

Ware, Joshua. “How Do You Create a Zukofsky Without Organs?” (May 2008). http://zukofskybwo.blogspot.com/ [Deleuzian reading of LZ].

Zukofsky, Paul. “Why 4 Other Countries or Dear Charles, This Is All Your Fault.” PEPC Library (2008).

 

The Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference

Columbia University & Barnard College

17 - 19 September, 2004

www.writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/zukofsky/100/

 

Many of the conference papers and readings, some in significantly fuller form, are also available in Jacket 30
http://jacketmagazine.com/30/index.shtml

 

The following papers on-line at the Conference site with those in Jacket 30 also indicated:

 

Tim Woods, "Zukofsky at Columbia" (Jacket 30)

Norman Finkelstein, "Comparisons and Criteria: Testing the Test of Poetry"

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, "A Test of Poetry and Conviction" (Jacket 30)

Bob Perelman, "'Now Put Down Your Pencils': Anxiety and Touchstones" (Jacket 30 as “Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a Body of Work”)

Marjorie Perloff, "From "A"-22 to Oulipo: Zukofsky's French Connection"

Richard Sieburth, "Pound, Zukofsky, Calvalcanti"

Helene Aji, "Useless, Usable, Useful: Louis Zukofsky's American Designs" (Jacket 30)

Steve Shoemaker, “Modern Times: Objectivist ‘’Movies’ and Thinking Matter in Louis Zukofsky’s Poems of the Thirties, Or, The Behavior of Objects in the Gas Age” (Jacket 30)

Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas: "Spinozian Poetics in Zukofsky's Late Works"

Chris Beyers, "History, Affect, Ideology: Louis Zukofsky and Collage Form"

Abigail Lang, "The Remembering Words" or «how zukofsky used words» (Jacket 30)

David Huntsperger, "Sincerity, Objectification, and Baroque Instability: Zukofsky’s Hybrid Poetics."

Barbara Cole, "'Wedded Words: On the dim tide' of Feminist Criticism and Louis Zukofsky"

Jessica Smith, "Valentine for the Future: Zukofsky's Alternate Poetics"

Peter Quartermain, "Thinking with the Poem.” (Jacket 30) Rpt. Golden Handcuffs Review 1.5 (Summer/Fall 2005):
www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com/thinking_with_poem.htm.

Henry Weinfield, "Oppen's (Bronkian) Reaction against Zukofskyan Objectivism"

Paul Stephens, “LZ and Aristotle” (Jacket 30 as “Zukofsky, Aristotle, Objectivism, Biology”)

Rob Fiterman, “1-800-FLOWERS: Inventory as Poetry in Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers, an essay in verse” (Jacket 30)

Benoît Turquety, "’Our St. Matthew Passion’: Louis Zukofsky and Film" (Jacket 30)

Jerome Rothenberg, “Louis Zukofsky: A Reminiscence”

Poets’ tributes:

Jerome Rothenberg, “Louis Zukofsky: A Reminiscence” (Jacket 30); also at Rothenberg’s blog “Poems and Peotics”: http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2008/09/from-poetics-polemics-louis-zukofsky.html

Bruce Andrews , “What’s the Word: An Essay on Reading” (Jacket 30)

Ben Friedlander, “For Zukofsky/100” (Jacket 30)

Robert Grenier, “A Letter to Peter Quartermain” (Jacket 30)

 

Flash Point #7: Louis Zukofsky Centennial (Summer 2004)

http://www.flashpointmag.com/index7.htm

 

Essays and poetic tributes:

 

Kevin Fitzgerald, “Zukofsky’s ‘A’ and Joyces’ Ulysses: Epics of Fragmentation.”

Bradford Haas, “Holding Up the Mirror and No More: Louis Zukofsky’s ‘1892-1941.’”

___. Review of The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire and the Correspondence with William Carlos Williams.

Burt Kimmelman, “'Art new, hurt old': “A”, Ulysses, and Modernist Intertextuality."

Mark Scroggins, “Blood to the Ghosts: Biography and the New Modernist Studies (with special reference to Louis Zukofsky).”

Poets’ tributes:

Rosmarie Waldrop, “An Objective”

Hugh Seidman, “Zuk Tape”

Thomas A. Clark, “’a horizontal branch’”

Mark Kuniya, “Zukofsky’s Ashtray”

 

Re-Reading Bottom: Symposium on Louis Zukofsky’s Bottom: on Shakespeare

SUNY Buffalo, 31 Oct. – 1 Nov. 2003

epc.buffalo.edu/authors/zukofsky/bottom/index.html

 

The following Workshop papers or abstracts are on-line:

 

Antony Adolf, "Epic Criticism / Critical Epics"

Gregg Biglieri, "No Ideas But Eyed Ears"

Stephen Collis, "At the Bottom of Avon River: A Partial Alphabet of Objects for Louis Zukofsky and HD"

Kaplan P. Harris, "Bottom Up: Zukofsky's Henry Adams"

Nick Lawrence, "Dreaming in Characters"

Sasha Steensen, "At Face Value: Bones among the Epitaphs"

Paul Stephens, " 'Harsh Advice to Scholars': Humanistic, Anti-Historical, and New Critical Elements in Bottom: on Shakespeare"

Michael Cross, " 'For want of the image of a voice'"

Barbara Cole, "'(Wo)Man (Critic) is but an ass?': The Bottom Line for Gender Criticism on Zukofsky"

Nick Salvato, "Bottoming Zukofsky"

Jessica Smith, "The Aesthetic Implications of 'Julia's Wild'"

Trevor Speller, "Bottom's Elisions"

Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas, " 'Words spin': Spinoza in the Poetics of Zukofsky's Bottom"