# Ludovicus Zukofsky

**Ludovicus Zukofsky** (23 Ianuarii 1904—12 Maii 1978) fuit poeta Americanus, unus ex conditoribus et theorista primarius gregis poetarum obiectivistarum appellatorum, et ergo vis magni momenti in subsequentes poetarum aetates in America et civitatibus alienis. Suum magnum opus fuit poema *"A.,"* anno 1927 inceptum et usque ad mortem continuatum. Omnis textus, 826 paginis impressus, cum verbo *A* incipiens et *Zion* ('Sion') finiens, anno 1978 prolatum est.

## Opera

### Poesis, oratio soluta, ludi scaenici

* *The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire/Le Style Apollinaire* (1934), cum René Taupin, Sasha Watson, Jean Daive et Sergio Gavronskij, University Press of New England, ISBN 0-8195-6620-9
* *First Half of "A" 9* (privatim impressum, 1940)
* *55 Poems* (1941)
* *Anew* (1946)
* *Some Time: Short Poems* (1956)
* *Statements for Poetry* (1958)
* *Barely & Widely* (1958)
* *It Was* (1959)
* *"A" 1-12* (1959, ed. 2a, 1966 (BR), 1967 (CF))
* *Louis Zukofsky: 16 Once Published* (1962)
* *Arise, Arise* (1962/1973)
* *Bottom: On Shakespeare* 2 voll.
* *I's (Pronounced Eyes)* (1963)
* *Found Objects: 1962-1926* (1964)
* *After I's* (1964)
* *Finally a Valentine: A Poem* (1965)
* *I Sent Thee Late* (1965)
* *Iyyob* (1965)
* *Little: An Unearthing* (1965)
* *All: The Collected Short Poems,1923-1958* (1965)
* *All: The Collected Short Poems,1956-1964* (1966)
* *"A" 14* (1967)
* *Fragment for Careenagers* (1967)
* *Ferdinand, Including "It Was"* (1968)
* *"A" 13-21* (1969)
* *Catullus Fragmenta* (with music by Celia Zukofsky) (1968)
* *Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky* (1968)
* *Catullus* (1969)
* *The Gas Age* (1969)
* *Autobiography* (poems set to music by Celia Zukofsky) (1970)
* *Little: For Careenagers* (1970)
* *Initial* (1970)
* *All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1964* (1971)
* *"A" 24* (1972)
* *"A" 22 & 23* (1975)
* *80 Flowers* (1978)
* *"A"* (1978)
* *Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky* (edited by Barry Ahearn) (1987)
* *Collected Fiction* (1990)
* *Complete Short Poetry* (1991)
* *Selected Poems* (edited by Charles Bernstein) (2006)

### Editio Centennialis Omnium Scriptorum Criticorum

* 2000. *A Test of Poetry.* Praefatio Roberti Creeley. Complete Critical Writings, 1. Wesleyan University Press.
* 2001. *Prepositions+: The Collected Critical Essays.* Praefatio Charles Bernstein; prosa addita et ed. Mark Scroggins. Complete Critical Writings, 2. Wesleyan University Press.
* 2003. *Bottom: On Shakespeare,* cum Celia Thaew Zukofsky. Complete Critical Writings, 3 & 4. Wesleyan University Press.
* 2003. *A Useful Art: Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design.* Ed. Kenneth Sherwood; postverbum Ioannis Taggart. Complete Critical Writings, 6. Wesleyan University Press.
* 2004. *Le Style Apollinaire: The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire.* Ed. Serge Gavronsky; praefatio Jean Daive. Complete Critical Writings, 5. Wesleyan University Press.

### Epistulae

* 1987. *Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky,* ed. Barry Ahearn. Faber & Faber.
* 1993. *Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931-1970,* ed. Jenny Penberthy. Cambridge University Press.
* 2003.; *The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams & Louis Zukofsky,* ed. Barry Ahearn. (Wesleyan University Press.

### Editor

* 1932. *An 'Objectivists' Anthology,* cum Var Le Beausset
* 1948, 1964. *Test of Poetry.*

## Bibliographia

* Perelman, Bob. 1994. *The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky.* Berkeleiae: University of California Press.
* Scroggins, Mark. 1998. *Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge.* University of Alabama Press.
* Scroggins, Mark, ed. 1997. *Upper Limit Music: The Writing of Louis Zukofsky.* University of Alabama Press.
* Scroggins, Mark. 2007. *The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky.* Shoemaker & Hoard.

## Nexus externi

* Biographia, www.english.uiuc.edu (Modern American Poetry)
* Biographia, epc.buffalo.edu (EPC)
* "A Companion to the Works of Louis Zukofsky, www.z-site.net
* *Feature: Zukofsky,* jacketmagazine.com (*Jacket Magazine* 30(Iulio 2006).
* *Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems* (2006), ed. Charles Bernstein, www.americanpoetsproject.org (Propositum Poetarum Americanorum)
* Res Ludovici Zukofsky, www.lib.ksu.edu (University Archives, Kansas State University)

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