Z-site: A Companion to the Works of Louis Zukofsky
 

This companion to the works of the American poet Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) is a site in progress without end. This is conceived as a collaborative project, and all additions, corrections and suggestions—however small—are greatly appreciated.

Jeff Twitchell-Waas
jtwaas@gmail.com

Contents

I.

Editorial Notes

II.

Notes to “A”

III.

Notes to Poetry

IV.
Notes to Prose
V. Bibliographies & Research
VI. Textual Notes
VII. LZ Chronology
VIII. Celia Zukofsky

Abbreviations used:

Names

LZ
Louis Zukofsky
CZ
Celia Zukofsky
PZ
Paul Zukofsky
EP
Ezra Pound
WCW William Carlos Williams

Zukofsky’s Works (see Bibliography for full citations)

Arise Arise, arise (1973)
Bottom
Bottom: On Shakespeare (2002)
CF
Collected Fiction (1990)
CSP
Complete Short Poetry (1991)
Prep+
Prepositions +: The Collected Critical Essays (2000)
TP
A Test of Poetry (2000)
EP/LZ
Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky (1987)
WCW/LZ The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky (2003)

Dictionaries

AHD
American Heritage Dictionary
CD
Century Dictionary
WD Webster’s Dictionary

Languages

Fr.
French
Ger.
German
Gk.
Greek
Heb.
Hebrew
It.
Italian
L. Latin


The following three pioneering works are familiar to all serious readers of LZ and inevitably crop up throughout the notes, so they are referenced simply by the authors’ names without further title information:

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. University of California Press, 1983.
Scroggins, Mark. Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998.
Terrell, Carroll F. Ed. Louis Zukofsky, Man and Poet. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1979.

Other citations to surname only refer to the book publication as opposed to articles of the given author.

Special thanks to Hendry Chandra Ong for design and technical assistance and to Margit Waas for invaluable proof-reading and other editorial advice.