LZ
Online
For
readers new to Zukofsky, the following two links offer good places to start:
Scroggins, Mark. “Louis
Zukofsky.”
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/zukofsky/zukofsky.htm
[Modern American Poetry page on LZ also offers diverse commentary on “To my
wash-stand” and “Mantis”]
Lewis, Leon. “Louis
Zukofsky.” From The Literary Encyclopedia.
www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4853.
[good overview article]
Dorfman,
Elsa. A Zukofsky Gallery (6 photos). http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/zukofsky/.
Online
essays and papers 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.
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). corpse.org/issue_9/critiques/gallagher.htm
Gilonis, Harry. “’Close
eye and gross sigh", or, "Art is Art, and Everything Else is
Everything Else" (2001). www.bbk.ac.uk/readings/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
Hoffman, Eric. “An
Examination of Louis Zukofsky.” Mental Contagion (Aug. and July 2005).
www.mentalcontagion.com/archive.html#
[two-part overview, look under Examinations].
Jones, Peter. “Louis
Zukofsky.” Poetry Nation (London) 5 (1975).
www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=6388.
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
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]
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)
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)
www.flashpointmag.com/#zukcen
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"
