Known as one of the most significant poets of the 20th century, Zukovsky was also an accomplished writer of fiction, all of which is collected here for the first time.
A Useful Art is an invaluable chronicle of a major American poet's engagement with this country's indigenous tradition of design. In 1936, the Federal Arts Project (a division of the WPA) hired Louis Zukofsky, along with many others, to prepare a compendium of information on traditional American crafts. The Index of American Design aimed to define ...
This volume restores to print Zukofsky's pedagogical volume, in which he presents unlikely poems beside one another to emphasize their interconnectedness, and places different translations of the same poems together to underscore the poetical strategies of the superior example.
The work of Louis Zukofsky has been gaining exposure as a new generation of poets and scholars "rediscover" the American avant-garde tradition. Concurrently, interest in Guillaume Apollinaire's has grown in recent years as English departments re-explore international modernism. In this extended essay, Louis Zukofsky provides readings of the French ...
Tracing the themes of knowledge, love and physical vision through Shakespeare's plays and poetry, this book is more than an act of homage by one poet to another. It lays out Zukofsky's poetics and theory of knowledge on a grand scale.
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