Zukofsky, Louis
Zukofsky, Louis ( 1904 – 78 ),American poet, born in the Yiddish melting pot of New York. In 1931 with Pound 's sponsorship he edited the ‘Objectivists’ issue of Poetry , Chicago, followed in 1932 by An ‘Objectivists’ Anthology, featuring among others Carl Rakosi , George Oppen , and B. Bunting . Zukofksy's lyrics, collected in the Complete Short Poetry ( 1991 ), are vividly textual, often witty, always stylish and lapidary. They are challenging and opaque or else clear as crystal. Like many of his contemporaries a deep philosophical puzzlement also attaches to his work, finally making it some of the most intellectually inimitable in the US canon. The hermeneutic drive within Objectivism, differentiating it from Imagism 's lyric base, is fully explored in Zukofsky's long poem A, a paean to his nuclear family. Written over 45 years in 24 categorical parts, A shows...
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