Poems for/with/about LZ

 

This is a list of poems that refer to, are addressed to, dedicated to or quote LZ. At the bottom there follows a short list of books dedicated to LZ. These lists are, with some flexibility, restricted to poets who were contemporaries of and in most cases knew LZ and to poems composed during his lifetime or in response to his death. It would be of interest to list all original journal publications, although for the most part that information is not readily available to me. The list is certainly incomplete, so suggested additions are appreciated.

 

Asa Beneviste. “Infield Outfield.” Throw Out the Life Line, Lay Out the Corse (1983); The New British Poetry 1968-88, eds. Gillian Allnutt, et. al. (1988): 135-136.

Henry Birnbaum. “Orizons.” Poetry 94.3 (June 1959): 156-163.

Paul Blackburn. “Affinities III” (1963?); Selected Poems 109.

___. “Motivations I.” In . On . Or About the Premises (1968).

___. “A Dull Poem (for L.Z.).” In . On . Or About the Premises (1968).

Robin Blaser. “Bottom’s Dream.” Charms (1964-68); The Holy Forest 130.

___. “The Finder.” Charms (1964-68); The Holy Forest 131-132.

___. “Out of the Window.” Charms (1964-68); The Holy Forest 133.

___. “Image-Nation 18 (an apple.” Pell Mell (1988); The Holy Forest 249.

___. “Robert Duncan” (1988). The Holy Forest 335.

David Bromige. My Poetry (1980).

Robert Creeley. “The House.” For Love (1962): 139.

___. “As real as thinking.” Pieces (1968): 3.

___. “The.” Hello: A Journal, Feb. 29-May 3, 1976 (1978): 60.

___. “Touchstone.” Later (1978): 107.

___. “Klaus Reichert and Creeley Send Regards.” Windows (1990): 128.

___. “Goodbye.” Life & Death (1998): 35-36.

Edward Dahlberg. “For Louis Zukofsky.” Poetry 78.5 (Aug. 1951): 278-279.

Guy Davenport. “1880 (From the Hebrew of Harold Schimmel).” Conjunctions 4 (1983): 38-50; Thasos and Ohio (1985): 103-116.

Robert Duncan. “After Reading BARELY AND WIDELY.” The Opening of the Field (1960): 88-92.

___. “Jamais (Passages).” Ground Work: Before the War (1984): 147-148.

___. “With In (Passages).” Ground Work II: In the Dark (1987): 71.

Allen Fisher. “Flashing Past yer / After Louis Zukofsky.” Montemora 2 (Sum 1976): 105; Place (2005): 161.

___. “Pass word the salt / After Louis Zukofsky.” Place (2005): 160.

Kenneth Irby. “[requiem etudes . for Louis Zukofsky]” (1978). The Paris Review 86 (Winter 1982): 124-125; Call Steps (1992): 97.

Ronald Johnson. “W A N E” and “f a l l a l l a l l a.” Songs of the Earth (1970); To Do as Adam Did: Selected Poems of Ronald Johnson, ed. Peter O’Leary (2000): 74, 76.

___. “Ark 34, Spire on the death of L. Z.” Ark 50 (1984): 1-3; Ark (1996).

Robert Kelly. “Summertime.” The Mill of Particulars (1977): 107.

___. “Ode on the Two Hundredth Birthday of this Commonwealth.” Kill the Messenger (1979): 70-73.

___. “A Book of Solutions.” Kill the Messenger (1979): 205.

___. “Measure.” A Strange Market (1992): 32-33.

Jackson Mac Low. “5 Poems from and for Louis Zukofsky” (1963).

Edwin Morgan. “Homage to Zukofsky.” Dreams and Other Nightmares: New and Uncollected Poems 1954-2001 (2010).

Lorine Niedecker. “(L.Z.)” (1945). Collected Works (2002): 125.

___. “LZ’s” (1964). Collected Works (2002): 206-207.

___. “LZ” (1969). Collected Works (2002): 289-290.

George Oppen. “Visit” 2 (c.1960). New Collected Poems (2002): 330-331

___. “The Lighthouses.” Myth of the Blaze (1975); New Collected Poems (2002): 256-257.

Joel Oppenheimer. “For Louis Zukofsky 1904-1978.” New Spaces (1978); Collected Later Poems (1997): 230.

Michael Palmer. “Notes for Echo Lake 1.” Notes for Echo Lake (1981): 3-6.

Ezra Pound. “Old Zuk.” European (Jan. 1959); Poems and Translations (2003): 1200.

Carl Rakosi. “The Gnat (A greeting to Louis Zukofsky).” The Windsor Quarterly 1.2 (Summer 1933): 138-139; Amulet (1967): 7.

Kenneth Rexroth. “The Sufficient.” New Directions 4 (1939); Collected Shorter Poems 54-55; Complete Poems (2003): 90-91.

Jerome Rothenberg. “Two More About a Crow, in the Manner of Zukofsky.” Poems for the Game of Silence (1971): 137.

Aram Saroyan. “Placitas, for L.Z.” Lines 2 (Dec. 1964).

Ron Silliman. Tjanting (1981): en passant.

Gilbert Sorrentino. “Zukofsky.” From The Orangery (1978): 17; Selected Poems 1958-1980 (1981): 207.

Jack Spicer. “Conspiracy.” A Book of Music (1959); My Vocabulary Did This to Me (2008): 177-178.

Stanley, George. “The Gifts of Death.” Open Space 6 (1964); You: Poems 1957-67 (1974); A Tall, Serious Girl: Selected Poems 1957-2000 (2003): 71-76.

Charles Tomlinson. “To Louis Zukofsky.” Agenda 3.6 (Dec. 1964), New Directions 39 (1979): 175-177.

Jonathan Williams. “An Objectivist’s Anthology.” From 50! Epiphyties,-taphs,-tomes,-grams,-thets! 50! (1967), in An Ear in Bartram’s Tree (1969).

William Carlos Williams. “To My Friend Ezra Pound.” Neon (1956); Collected Poems of WCW Vol. II (1988): 434.

 

Books dedicated to LZ

Robert Creeley. Pieces (1969).

Robert Kelly. Axon Dendron Tree (1967).

Ezra Pound. Guide to Kulchur [with Basil Bunting] (1938)

Charles Reznikoff. Testimony [prose version] (1934)

John Taggart. The Pyramid Is a Pure Crystal (1974).

Jonathan Williams. The Empire Finals at Verona (1959).

William Carlos Williams. The Wedge (1944).