Works by LZ
Primary Editions Used in
Notes
"A". Berkeley: U of California P, 1978. Rpt.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.
A Test of Poetry. NY: C.Z. Publications, 1980. Rpt. Wesleyan UP,
2000.
Arise, arise. NY: Grossman, 1973.
Autobiography. NY: Grossman, 1970.
Bottom: on Shakespeare. Berkeley: U of California P, 1987. Rpt.
Wesleyan UP, 2002.
Collected Fiction. Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1990.*
Complete Short Poetry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
Prepositions +: The Collected Critical Essays. Wesleyan UP, 2000.
A Useful Art: Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design. Wesleyan UP, 2003.
The
Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire/ Le Style Apollinaire (with Rene Taupin). Ed. with introduction by
Serge Gavronsky. Foreword by Jean Daive. Wesleyan UP, 2003 [bi-lingual edn. of
Le Style Apollinaire (1934)].
Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis
Zukofsky.
Ed. Barry Ahearn. NY: New Directions, 1987.
The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis
Zukofsky.
Ed. Barry Ahearn. Wesleyan UP, 2003.
*
There are two distinct printings of the Dalkey Archive edition of Collected Fiction, which effects some of
the pagination (see note). In the notes I have referred to the
most recent (1997) printing, which in the paperback edition has a mostly black
cover with a reduced and cropped photo of LZ on the front.
Complete Book and
Broadside Publications
As
with many experimental poets, particularly during the period of the Depression
and World War II, LZ long experienced difficulties finding publishers for his
books: his first book of poems was published in 1941 and it was not until 1965,
with the publication of the first volume of All
by Norton, that anything like a major publisher picked him up. On the other
hand, he was fortunate that during the last 15 years of his life virtually all
of his works were published or reissued, with the complete “A” and 80 Flowers in
press at the time of his death in May 1978. Also during this period, there were
numerous small limited editions of new and old work, often of very high quality
and produced by younger poets; see Notes on Limited Editions for descriptions of
these various publications.
An "Objectivists" Anthology. Ed. LZ. Le Beausset,
Var, France and NY: To, Publishers, 1932
Le Style Apollinaire, with René Taupin. Trans. René Taupin. Paris:
Les Presses Modernes, 1934. Rpt. The
Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire/ Le Style Apollinaire (2003).
First Half of "A" 9. NY: privately printed,
1940 [poem with source materials].
55 Poems. Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker, 1941.
Anew. Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker, 1946.
A Test of Poetry. NY: The Objectivist Press, 1948; London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952. Rpt. NY: Jargon/Corinth Books, 1964; NY: C.Z.
Publications, 1980; Wesleyan UP, 2000 (Foreword by Robert Creeley) [all
reprints are essentially facsimiles of the original Objectivist Press edn.].
Some Time. Stuttgart, Germany: Jonathan Williams/Jargon,
1956.
5 Statements for Poetry. San Francisco: SF State College, 1958.
Barely and widely. NY: C.Z. [Celia Zukofsky], 1958.
“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1959 (with essay by LZ and
note by WCW); London: Jonathan Cape, 1966; Garden City, NY: Doubleday (Paris
Review Editions), 1967 (Foreword by LZ and “A Note” by Robert Creeley).
It Was. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1961 [short fiction].
16 Once Published. Edinburgh, Scotland: The Wild Hawthorn Press,
1962. [selection by CZ from 55 Poems,
Anew, Some Time, and Barely &
widely].
I's (pronounced eyes). NY: Trobar Press, 1963.
Bottom: on Shakespeare, 2 volumes. Austin, TX: The Ark Press/Humanities
Research Center, U of Texas P, 1963. [Volume 2 is CZ’s musical setting of
Shakespeare's Pericles]. Rpt.
Berkeley: U of California P, 1987 [first volume only]; Wesleyan UP, 2002
(Foreword by Bob Perelman).
Found Objects 1962-1926. Georgetown, KY: H.B. Chapin (A Blue
Grass Book), 1964 [selection of 12 poems].
After I's. Pittsburgh, PA: Boxwood Press/Mother Press,
1964.
Finally a Valentine. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England: The Piccolo
Press, 1965 [single sheet twice-folded into a card].
ALL: The Collected Short Poems,1923-1958. NY: Norton, 1965;
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966 [collects short poems through Barely and widely].
An Unearthing. Cambridge, MA: Adams House & Lowell House
Printers, 1965.
I Sent Thee Late. Cambridge, MA: Adams House & Lowell House
Printers, 1965.
Iyyob. London: Turret Books, 1965.
“A” Libretto. NY: privately printed, 1965 [excerpts from all
movements of “A” composed up to that
date].
“a”-9. Stuttgart, Germany: futura 5, edition hansjörg mayer, 1966
[single sheet folded; prints Cavalcanti’s “Donna mi priegha” with two halves of
“A”-9 and a brief introduction in German, which LZ noted was an incorrect
translation].
ALL: Collected Short Poems, 1956-1964. NY: Norton, 1966;
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.
"A"-14. London: Turret Books, 1967. Printed by
Villiers Publ. Ltd, London.
Prepositions: The Collected Critical
Essays of Louis Zukofsky. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1967; NY: Horizon, 1968.
Little: a fragment for careenagers. LA: Black Sparrow
Press, 1967 [complete work published 1970].
From Thanks to the Dictionary. Buffalo, NY: Gallery
Upstairs, 1968 [broadside].
Ferdinand, including It Was. London: Jonathan Cape,
1968; NY: Grossman, 1968 [stories].
Catullus Fragmenta (with CZ and music by PZ). London: Turret
Books, 1968. Designed and printed by Trigram Press, London (100 copies).
"A" 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; NY: Doubleday
(Paris Review Editions), 1969.
Catullus (Gai Valeri Catulli Veronensis Liber), with Celia Zukofsky.
London: Cape Goliard, 1969; NY: Grossman, 1969.
The Gas Age. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Ultima Thule Book,
1969 [“LZ at the American
Embassy, London. May 21, 1969.” LZ notes that he included these remarks in the
expanded edition of Prepositions
(1981) because of the “mangled transcription” of this “unauthorized”
publication].
A Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky [Celia Zukofsky]. Los
Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
Autobiography (with CZ). NY: Grossman,1970 [selected short
poems set to music by CZ].
AN ERA. Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press, 1970 [postcard].
Initial. NY: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1970.
Little: for Careenagers. NY: Grossman, 1970 [novel].
ALL: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1964. NY: Norton, 1971.
[contains All: The Collected Short
Poems,1923-1958 and All: The
Collected Short Poems, 1956-1964].
"A" 24. NY: Grossman, 1972.
Arise, arise. NY: Grossman, 1973 [play].
"A" 22 & 23. NY: Grossman, 1975; London: Trigram
Press, 1977.
“A”. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978; Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins UP, 1993 [complete edn.].
80 Flowers. Lunenburg, VT: Stinehour Press, 1978.
American Friends [Celia Zukofsky]. NY: C.Z. Publications;
printed by Stinehour Press, 1979.
Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis
Zukofsky.
Expanded edn. Foreword by Hugh Kenner. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1981.
Collected Fiction. Foreword by Gilbert Sorrentino and afterword
by Paul Zukofsky. Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1990.
Complete Short Poetry. Foreword by Robert Creeley. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Prepositions +: The Collected Critical Essays. Ed. with introduction
by Mark Scroggins. Foreword by Charles Bernstein. Wesleyan UP, 2001.
A Useful Art: Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design. Ed. with introduction
by Kenneth Sherwood. Afterword by John Taggart. Wesleyan UP, 2003.
The Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire/ Le Style Apollinaire (with Rene Taupin). Ed.
with introduction by Serge Gavronsky. Foreword by Jean Daive. Wesleyan UP, 2003
[bi-lingual edn. of Le Style Apollinaire
(1934)].
Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems. Ed. Charles Bernstein.
NY: Library of America, 2006.
Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis
Zukofsky.
Ed. Barry Ahearn. NY: New Directions, 1987.
The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis
Zukofsky.
Ed. Barry Ahearn. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2003.
Miscellaneous
See also Uncollected Poems
Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait. By Anton Reiser
[Rudolph Kayser, Einstein’s son-in-law]. NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930
[translated anonymously by LZ].
Basic. NY: Hazeltine Electronics Corp., 1943 [report on Ogden
& Richards’ Basic English, rev. in Prep+].
“A Preface?” Jonathan
Williams. Amen/Huzza/Selah (Jargon
13(a)). Karlsruhe-Durlach, Germany: Jargon, 1960.
“Three Letters to Cid
Corman.” Origin, second series 1
(April 1961): 46-47 [dated 11 July, 13 Aug. & 25 Aug. 1960]. Two letters
rpt. The Gist of Origin, ed. Cid
Corman (New York: Grossman, 1975): 160.
“The ‘Objectivist’ Poet”
[Interview]. L.S. Dembo. Contemporary
Literature 10 (Spring 1969): 203-219. Rpt. Terrell (1979): 265-281; The Contemporary Writer: Interviews with
Sixteen Novelists and Poets, ed. with Cyrna N. Pondrom (Madison: U of
Wisconsin Press, 1972); Prep+ (2001):
229-246.
“Poet in Pressed Pants” (interview by Raymond
Gardner in London with photo). The
Guardian (14 May 1969).
“Hushed Symbols” (talk with and description of
London reading by Edward Lucie-Smith). The
Sunday Times (London) (18 May 1969): 60.
Reply to “Questionaire
on Rhythm: from America.” Agenda 11
(Spring/Summer 1973): 66.
“To Basil” (with CZ). Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting’s 75th
Brithday. Ed. Jonathan Williams. Dentdale, UK: Jargon Society, 1975.
“Discarded Poems.” Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet. Ed.
Carroll F. Terrell. Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 1979. 145-162.
“Letters between
Zukofsky and Ezra Pound.” Ed. Barry Ahearn. Montemora
8 (1981): 158-165 [includes some letters not in EP/LZ].
“A Letter to Robert
Creeley” [dated 11 Oct. 1955], Robert
Creeley’s Life and Work: A Sense of Increment. Ed. John Wilson. Ann Arbor,
MI: U of Michigan P, 1987. 32-33.
“Three Letters to Cid
Corman.” Line 14 (Fall 1989): 3-10.
“Selected Correspondence
(1930-1976).” Ed. Barry Ahearn. Chicago
Review 50.2/3/4 (Winter 2004/05): 39-50 [8 letters to EP, Robert Creeley,
David Ignatow, Henry Rago, Mary Ellen Solt, Hugh Kenner, Tom Maschler and
Gilbert Sorrentino].
The primary collection
of Zukofsky's manuscripts and papers are housed at the Humanities Research
Center, University of Texas, Austin. See the extensive inventory listings at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00138/hrc-00138.html.
Also manuscript descriptions by Booth and Henderson (see Bibliographies).
There are a number of reproductions of manuscript and
typescript pages; see in particular the following:
Booth, Marcella. A Catalogue of the Louis Zukofsky Manuscript Collection. Austin:
Humanities Research Center, The U of Texas, 1975.
Henderson, Cathy. “Supplement to Marcella
Booth’s A Catalogue of the Louis Zukofsky Manuscript Collection.” Oliphant,
Dave and Gena Dagel, eds. Lawrence,
Jarry, Zukofsky: A Triptych—Manuscript Collections at Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center. Austin, TX: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
University of Texas, 1987. 107-181.
Zukofsky, Paul. “Louis
Zukofsky’s Maginalia.” Chicago Review
50.2/3/4 (Winter 2004/05): 101-102 [two pages of LZ’s marginalia on the King
James version of the Bible].
Paideuma 7.3 (Winter 1978):
503-504 [two manuscript pages from 80 Flowers].
