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.
Kalck, Xavier. “The
Question of Sincerity in Objectivist Poetry.” GRAAT 8 (Aug. 2010). http://www.graat.fr/kalck.pdf
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].
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"
