Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge (Modern Contemporary Poetics) ebook

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Start by marking Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Mark Scroggins advances thoughtful readings of Zukofsky's key critical essays, a wide variety of his shorter poems, and his "poem of a life," "A". He carefully situates Zukofsky within his literary and historical contexts, examining his relationship to Pound, his 1930s Marxist politics, and his sense of himself as a Jewish modernist poet. Scroggins also places Zukofsky within an ongoing tradition of American poetry, including the work of Wallace Stevens, Charles Bernstein, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, and John Taggart.

Poets such as Louis Zukofsky and . Eliot engaged in a reciprocal dynamic of influence with systems scientists, such as Norbert Wiener and R. Buckminster Fuller, whilst Gary Snyder substantively engaged with the work of the ecologist Eugene Odum. Contemporary poets such as Juliana Spahr, Marcella Durand and the British poet Colin Simms continue, directly or indirectly, to interrogate scientific models in their poetry. Following from Karl Popper's notion of 'subjectless' knowledge, this article argues that poetry, like the other arts and sciences can be construed as a distinct 'world'. This world is constituted by internal relations both in a structural and an intertextual sense.

Scroggins provides a provocative and advanced introduction to the thought and writing of Louis Zukofsky, aptly described as one of the "first postmodernists.

Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge (Modern & Contemporary Poetics) Format: Hardcover Authors: Mark Scroggins ISBN10: 0817309071 Published: 1998-11-03.

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Zukofsky and after: post-objectivist poetics in John Taggart and Ronald Johnson.

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Louis Zukofsky is an important American poet. Determined to find a place for himself in the world beyond the ghetto, his route out was poetry. In his brief Autobiography he reported how he began to appropriate the heritage of Western literature, first in Yiddish and then in English: My first exposure to letters at the age of four was thru the Yiddish theaters.

Best Famous Modern or Contemporary Poets. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. This is a list of famous modern poets. He received the PEN Open Book Award formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.

This book situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. The book makes a strong case for perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix of modernism.

Scroggins provides a provocative and advanced introduction to thethought and writing of Louis Zukofsky, aptly described as one of the "firstpostmodernists."

Poet, translator, and editor, Louis Zukofsky was born in New York Cityin 1904. Raised to speak first Yiddish and then English, he was fascinatedby language from an early age. This deep preoccupation with language--itsmusicality, complex constructions, and fluid meaning--later became a keycomponent in the development of his poetry. Friend to William Carlos Williams,Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, mentor to Robert Creeley and influenceon many of the Language Movement poets, Zukofsky and his work stand squarelyat the center of American poetry's transition from modernism to postmodernism.

Mark Scroggins advances thoughtful readings of Zukofsky's key criticalessays, a wide variety of his shorter poems, and his "poem of a life,""A". He carefully situates Zukofsky within his literary and historicalcontexts, examining his relationship to Pound, his 1930s Marxist politics,and his sense of himself as a Jewish modernist poet. Scroggins also placesZukofsky within an ongoing tradition of American poetry, including thework of Wallace Stevens, Charles Bernstein, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer,and John Taggart.