Nov 15, 2009

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At a glance:

Author: Louis Zukofsky
Type of Work: Poetic sequence
Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
Subjects: Family or family life, Communism or communists, Suicide, Twentieth century, Music or musicians, World War II, Depression, economic, Poetry or poets, Emotions, Economics, Intellect, Physics or physicists

The Poem

“A” is one of the longest poems in the English language, numbering more than eight hundred pages. It was written over a forty-six-year period (1928-1974) and is divided into twenty-four sections (referred to as movements) that differ widely in length, from the single page of “A”-16 to the 242 pages of “A”-24. “A” is generally considered to be the greatest poetic achievement of the twentieth century Objectivist school of poetry, which was led by Louis Zukofsky and included George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff, and Carl...

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At a glance:

The Poem

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