Commentary on “A”

 

The following bibliography is not intended to be exhaustive, but to indicate the most significant or useful commentaries on individual movements of “A”, particularly close readings. Some items that no doubt should be here are absent because I am currently unable to access them.

 

On sequences or groups of movements

 

Hatlen, Burton. “Art and/as Labor: Some Dialectical Patterns in ‘A’-1 through ‘A’-10.” Contemporary Literature 25.2 (Summer 1984): 204-234.

McMorris, Mark. “Postcolonial ‘A’? Empire & Nation in Louis Zukofsky’s American Movements, ‘A’-14 – ‘A’-17.” Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics 8 (2001): 11-22.

 

“A”-1

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 39-47.

Corman, Cid. “The Z Gambit: Appendix to ‘A’-1”. Origin, fifth series 2 (Winter 1983): 70-87.

Scroggins, Mark. Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998. 194-200.

Stanley, Sandra Kumanoto. Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1994. 35-39.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 45-49.

 

“A”-2

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 46-49.

Corman, Cid. “’A’-2: Getting On With It.” Sagetrieb 3.3 (Winter 1984): 107-114.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 50-52.

 

“A”-3

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 49-51.

Corman, Cid. “’A’-3: RICKY with addenda: 1-9.” Origin, fifth series 5 (Spring 1985): 38-66.

Stanley, Sandra Kumanoto. Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1994. 19-24.

 

“A”-4

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 51-52.

Weisman, Karen A. “’Self-Taunt’ and ‘The Courses We Tide From’: A Note on Zukofsky’s “A”-4.” Sagetrieb 6.1 (Spring 1987): 75-80.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 52-58.

“A”-5

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 58-60.

 

“A”-6

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 52-60.

Scroggins, Mark. Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998. 200-202.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 62-67, 95-98.

 

“A”-7

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 60-66.

Conniff, Brian. “The Modern Lyric and Prospero’s Island.” Twentieth Century Literature 34.1 (Spring 1988): 84-112.

Stanley, Sandra Kumanoto. Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1994. 99-107.

 

“A”-8

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 73-100, 233-239.

Ahearn, Barry. “Zukofsky, Marxism, and American Handicraft.” In Scroggins (1997): 94-111.

Carson, Luke. Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound. NY: St. Martin's, 1999. 150-168.

Scroggins, Mark. Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998. 154-161.

Stanley, Sandra Kumanoto. Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1994. 42-45.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 75-82.

 

“A”-9

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 100-115, 231-233, 239-241.

Brown, Norman O. “Revisioning Historical Identities.” Tikkun 5.6 (Nov/Dec. 1990): 36-40,107-110. Rpt. Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis (Berekeley: U of California Press, 1991).

Carson, Luke. Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound. NY: St. Martin's, 1999. 175-181.

Davidson, Michael. “Dismantling ‘Mantis’: Reification and Objectivist Poetics.” American Literary History 3.3 (Fall 1991): 521-541. Rpt. Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (Berkeley: U of California P, 1997): 116-134.

Kenner, Hugh. “Loove in Brooklyn.” Paideuma 7.3 (Winter 1978): 413-420. Rpt. New Directions 39 (1979): 166-175; Historical Fictions: Essays on Literature (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990): 122-132.

Marsh, Alec. “Poetry and the Age: Pound, Zukofsky, and the Labor Theory of Value.” In Scroggins (1997): 112-126.

Quartermain, Peter. “’Not at All Surprised by Science’: Louis Zukofsky’s First Half of ‘A’-9.” In Terrell (1979): 203-226. Rpt. Disjunctive Poetics (1992): 70-89.

Schelb, Edward. "The Exaction of Song: Louis Zukofsky and the Ideology of Form." Contemporary Literature 31.3 (Fall 1990): 335-353.

Twitchell, Jeffrey. “Tuning the Senses: Cavalcanti, Marx, Spinoza and Zukofsky’s ‘A’-9.” Sagetrieb 11 (Winter 1992): 57-91.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 103-130.

 

“A”-10

Comens, Bruce. Apocalypse and After: Modern Strategy and Postmodern Tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky, U of Alabama P, 1995. 153-157.

 

“A”-11

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 115-124.

Kenner, Hugh. “Too Full for Talk: ‘A’-11.” MAPS 5 (1973): 12-21. Rpt. Terrell (1979): 195-202.

Kimmelman, Burt, “'Art new, hurt old': “A”, Ulysses, and Modernist Intertextuality," FlashPoint 7 (Summer 2004): see LZ Online.

 

“A”-12

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 124-128, 211-222.

Hatlen, Burton.  “From Modernism to Postmodernism: Zukofsky’s ‘A’-12.” Sagetrieb 11.1/2 (Spring/Fall 1992): 21-34. Rpt. in Scroggins (1997): 214-229.

Nirenberg, Ricardo. “The Sky Over Louis Zukofsky and Some Others.” Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture 15.29 (2005): 64-77.

Scroggins, Mark. Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998. 135-139, 203-225.

Taggart, John. Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1994. 191-195, 199-204.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 151-159.

 

“A”-13

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 130-134, 156-160.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 170-181.

 

“A”-14

McMorris, Mark. “Postcolonial ‘A’? Empire & Nation in Louis Zukofsky’s American Movements, ‘A’-14 – ‘A’-17.” Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics 8 (2001): 11-22.

 

“A”-15

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 137-139.

McMorris, Mark. “Postcolonial ‘A’? Empire & Nation in Louis Zukofsky’s American Movements, ‘A’-14 – ‘A’-17.” Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics 8 (2001): 11-22.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 190-193.

 

“A”-16

 

“A”-17

 

“A”-18

 

“A”-19

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 164-167.

Cox, Kenneth. “Zukofsky and Mallarmé: Notes on ‘A’-19.” MAPS 5 (1973): 1-11. Rpt. Collected Studies (2001).

Rieke, Alison. Senses of Nonsense. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992. 173-174, 186-196.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 184-186.

 

“A”-20

 

“A”-21

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 176-180.

Hatlen, Burton.  “Zukofsky as Translator.” In Terrell (1979): 345-364.

Wray, David. “’cool rare air’: Zukofsky’s Breathing with Catullus and Plautus.” Chicago Review 50.2/3/4 (Winter 2004/05): 52-99.

 

“A”-22

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 180-191.

Comens, Bruce. Apocalypse and After: Modern Strategy and Postmodern Tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky, U of Alabama P, 1995. 180-186

Comens, Bruce. “Soundings: The ‘An’ Song Beginning ‘A’-22.” Sagetrieb 5.1 (Spring 1986): 95-106.

Leggott, Michele J. Reading Zukofsky's "80 Flowers." Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989. 9, 34-72.

Scroggins, Mark. Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998. 226-256.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 194-198, 203-214.

 

“A”-23

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 191-194.

Leggott, Michele J. Reading Zukofsky's "80 Flowers." Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989. 10-11, 51-79, 156-159.

Rieke, Alison. Senses of Nonsense. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992. 170-173, 196-226.

___. “’Quotation and Originality’: Notes and Manuscripts to Louis Zukofsky’s ‘A’.” Lawrence, Jarry, Zukofsky: A Triptych—Manuscript Collections at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Eds. Oliphant, Dave and Gena Dagel. Austin, TX: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, 1987. 100-104.

Salvato, Nick. “Louis Zukofsky’s Old English Sources for ‘A’-23.” Notes and Queries 49.1 (March 2002): 85-88.

Scroggins, Mark. Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998. 226-256.

Woods, Tim. The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 203-214.

 

“A”-24

Ahearn, Barry. Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 168-175.

Cox, Kenneth. “’A’-24.” Agenda 11.2-3 (Spring-Summer 1973): 89-91.

Parsons, Marnie. “A More Capacious Shoulder: ‘A’-24, Nonsense, and the Burden of Meaning.” In Scroggins (1997): 230-256.

Taggart, John. Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1994. 107-110.