Zukofsky, Louis (Vol. 11) - Introduction

Zukofsky, Louis 1904–1978

Zukofsky was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist who, with William Carlos Williams and others, helped establish the Objectivist movement. His major work is the multivolumed poem sequence A, which utilizes a wide range of forms and themes in an attempt at an exhaustive examination of American culture and poetic thought. An uncompromising practitioner of his theories of poetry, Zukofsky was relatively unnoticed by the general public until late in life, though throughout his career he was praised by fellow poets. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 4, 7, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.; obituary, Vols. 77-80.)