Further Reading
- Ahearn, Barry, Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983, 254 p. (Ahearn describes his study as a "history" of "A"'s growth, "not a guide to the poem.")
- Bailey, Alvin R., "A Selected, Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Sources, 1932-1985, on Louis Zukofsky," Sagetrieb 10, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall 1991): 169-208. (Items are arranged chronologically by year. Bailey supplies an author index to facilitate use of the bibliography.)
- Byrd, Don, "The Shape of Zukofsky's Canon," Paideuma 7, No. 3 (Winter 1978): 455-77. (Discerns an underlying poetic theory that unifies and informs Zukofsky's works.)
- Carruth, Hayden, "The Only Way to Get There from Here," Journal of Modern Literature 4, No. 1 (September 1974): 88-90. (Defends Zukofsky's poetry against charges of obscurity.)
- Cox, Kenneth, "The Poetry of Louis Zukofsky: A," Agenda 9, No. 4 (Autumn-Winter 1971-72): 80-9. (An introduction to Zukofsky and his work, followed by an overview of "A.")
- Creeley, Robert, A Quick Graph: Collected Notes & Essays, edited by Donald Allen. San Francisco, 1970, 365 p. (Includes reviews of "A" 1-12, Barely & Widely, and All: The Collected Shorter Poems, 1923–1958, as well as two general essays on Zukofsky.)
- Creeley, Robert, A review of All: The Collected Shorter Poems, 1923-1958,Agenda 4, Nos. 3—4 (Summer 1966): 45-8. (Offers a favorable assessment of All and summarizes Zukofsky's approach to poetry.)
- Creeley, Robert, Foreword to Complete Short Poetry, by Louis Zukofsky, pp. vii-xiv. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. (Considers the aims and defining qualities of Zukofsky's poetry.)
- Davenport, Guy, "Zukofsky's 'A'-24," Parnassus: Poetry in Review 2, No. 2 (1974): 15-23. (Discusses the allusive complexity and musical quality of "A" and proclaims Zukofsky "our greatest living poet.")
- Davenport, Guy, "Zukofsky," in his The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays by Guy Davenport, pp. 100-13. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981. (Comments on "A" and Bottom: On Shakespeare eulogizes Zukofsky.)
- Enslin, Theodore, "Out of Deep Need—LZ and 'A,'" in Perception, edited by Don Wellman, Cola Franzen, and Irene Turner, pp. 99-101. Cambridge: O.ARS, 1982. (Discusses the relationship between Zukofsky's life and "A.")
- Ford, Mark, "Concrete yet Elusive," TLS, No. 4622 (1 November 1991): 10. (Summary evaluation of Zukofsky's poetry.)
- Hatlen, Burton, "Art and/as Labor," Contemporary Literature 25, No. 2 (Summer 1984): 205-34. (Supports the assertion that "in the first ten sections of 'A,' Zukofsky develops a complex counterpoint between his aesthetic commitments and his Marxist political commitments.")
- Hatlen, Burton, "From Modernism to Postmodernism: Zukofsky's 'A'-12," Sagetrieb 11, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall 1992): 21-34. (Contends that "A"-12 signals a significant change within "A"—in that section of the poem Zukofsky "moves decisively beyond the Modernist mode.")
- Hatlen, Burton, "Zukofsky, Wittgenstein, and the Poetics of Absence," Sagetrieb 1, No. 1 (Spring 1982): 63-93. (Finds that Zukofsky's poetics is based on his conception of language and the relationship of language to the world.)
- Kenner, Hugh, "Oppen, Zukofsky, and the Poem as Lens," in Literature at the Barricades: The American Writer in the 1930s, edited by Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson, pp. 162-71. University: The University of Alabama Press, 1982. (Explains the aesthetic implicit in the poetry of Zukofsky and George Oppen.)
- Kenner, Hugh, Foreword to Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky, rev. ed., pp. vii—x. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. (Discusses Zukofsky's preoccupation with language.)
- Leggott, Michele J., Reading Zukofsky's "80 Flowers." Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, 432 p. (Detailed explication of Zukofsky's poetry collection entitled 80 Flowers.)
- Merton, Thomas, "Paradise Bugged," The Critic, Chicago XXV, No. 4 (February-March 1967): 69-71. (Avers that Zukofsky rejuvenates language through his poetry.)
- Prestianni, Vincent, "Louis Zukofsky: An Analytic Bibliography of Bibliographies," Sagetrieb 8, Nos....
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- 1-2 (Spring-Fall 1989): 257-59. (Annotated list consisting mainly of primary bibliographies.)
- Quartermain, Peter, "'I Am Different, Let Not a Gloss Embroil You,'" Paideuma 9, No. 1 (Spring 1980): 203-10. (Highly favorable review of "A.")
- Quartermain, Peter, "Recurrencies: No. 12 of Louis Zukofsky's Anew," Paideuma 7, No. 3 (Winter 1978): 523-38. (Provides a close reading of the untitled twelfth poem in Anew.)
- Rieke, Alison, "'Quotation and Originality': Notes and Manuscripts to Louis Zukofsky's 'A'," The Library Chronicle at the University of Texas at Austin, Nos. 38-9 (1987): 76-105. (Examines Zukofsky's quotation of external texts in "A.")
- Rieke, Alison, "Words' Contexts, Contexts' Nouns: Zukofsky's Objectivist Quotations," Contemporary Literature 33, No. 1 (Spring 1992): 113-34. (Explains that the "fragments of linguistically unfamiliar combinations of words" in the second half of "A" arise from Zukofsky's continual interweaving of disguised references to external literary sources.)
- Schelb, Edward, "Through Rupture to Destiny: Repetition in Zukofsky," Sagetrieb 9, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall 1990): 25-42. (Asserts that "A" is intended to undermine metaphysics, myth, ideology, cultural and historical theories, and other abstract constructs.)
- Smith, Paul, "Pound/Zukofsky," Dalhousie Review 61, No. 2 (Summer 1981): 356-62. (Considers the relation of Zukofsky's poetry to that of his mentor, Ezra Pound.)
- Taggart, John, "Zukofsky's 'Mantis,'" Paideuma 7, No. 3 (Winter 1978): 507-22. (Examines the relationship between form and meaning in "Mantis.")
- Terrell, Carroll F., "A Bibliography of Works about Louis Zukofsky with Extended Commentary," in Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet, edited by Carroll F. Terrell, pp. 401-38. Orono, Maine: The National Poetry Foundation, 1979, 449 p. (Identifies "all of the significant writings about Louis Zukofsky and his work which have appeared since WW II.")
- Terrell, Carroll F., ed., Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet. Orono, Maine: The National Poetry Foundation, 1979, 449 p. (Collection of biographical and critical essays on Zukofsky.)
- Williams, William Carlos, "An Extraordinary Sensitivity," Poetry LX, No. 6 (September 1942): 338–40. (Judges 55 Poems uneven, noting instances of success and failure in Zukofsky's pursuit of poetical terseness.)
- Williams, William Carlos, "Louis Zukofsky," Agenda 3, No. 6 (December 1964): 1-4. (Attempts to provide an approach to understanding Zukofsky's poetry.)
- Zukofsky, Celia, A Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969, 52 p. (Catalogues Zukofsky's works: books, anthology contributions, magazine submissions, taped readings, and miscellaneous artistic endeavors.)
