Zukofsky, Louis (Vol. 1) - Zukofsky, Louis 1904–
Zukofsky, Louis 1904–
American poet, critic, and author of the novel, Little. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-10.)
It is not so much [the] grappling for what [Zukofsky] calls "objectification" that strikes the reader, as another equally typical effort to infuse his verse with his conscious selfhood…. It is [the] tension between the "straining at sense" and the utter quality of lyric honesty, frankness, exposing the "maniac," that characterizes Zukofsky's work. It is an unresolved tension and one that was shared by this poet's contemporaries, those men, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Stevens, whom Stanley Kunitz calls the "Senators." In this sense Zukofsky typifies the poetry of the twenties and thirties, though one will look far to find a more eccentrically unique poet…. For those who are familiar with Zukofsky only through the little magazines, it is possible to be unaware of his strong American presence. Not only in the...
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