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1 online resource (592 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Preface xi; Introduction 3; Chapter One A Lower East Side Youth : 19041920 11; Chapter Two An Ernster Mensch at Columbia : 19201924 24; Interchapter Adams: Phases of History 37; Chapter Three The Lean Twenties : 19241928 48; Chapter Four "A Thousand fiddles playing Bach" : 19281930 68; Chapter Five"A"1 through "A"7 79; Interchapter Duration, "Liveforever": Time 96; Chapter Six "Objectivists" : 19301931 103; Chapter Seven At the Helm of an Avant-Garde : 19321933 120; Chapter Eight Politics and Poetry : 19341935 136; Chapter Nine Culture and Design : 19361940 156 |
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Chapter Ten"A"8 and First Half of "A"9 175Interchapter Numbers and Horses 190; Chapter ElevenThe Home Front : 19401945 199; Chapter Twelve A New Life : 19461951 217; Chapter Thirteen"A"9 (second half) through "A"12 238; Interchapter Spinoza: Geometry and Freedom 253; Chapter FourteenThe Great World : 19521957 262; Chapter Fifteen Going Westward: 19581960 282; Interchapter Shakespeare: The Evidence of the Eyes 299; Chapt |
| Summary |
The Poem of a Life is the first critical biography of Louis Zukofsky, a fascinating and crucially important American modernist poet. It details the curve of his career, from the early Waste Land-parody "Poem beginning 'The'" (1926) to the dense and tantalizing beauties of his last poems, 80 Flowers(1978), paying special attention to the monumental, complex, and formally various epic poem "A", on which Zukofsky labored for almost fifty years, and which he called "a poem of a life." |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978.
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| SUBJECT |
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978. fast (OCoLC)fst00028936 |
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Poets, American.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781582439129 |
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1582439125 |
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