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Louis Zukofsky (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Although Louis Zukofsky (zew-KAHF-skee) has been called the consummate poet’s poet and even one of the greatest American poets born in the twentieth century, his challenging and innovative poetry has received little attention from either the popular or the academic world. Zukofsky pioneered the Objectivist movement in the 1930’s, wrote an inventive poetry that emphasized the music of verse, and contributed various innovations to the epic tradition in his lengthy poem “A,” which represents a lifelong endeavor.

The son of immigrant Russian Jews who spoke only...

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