num_pages: 208
description: Viewing Louis Zukofsky as a reader, writer, and innovator of twentieth-century poetry, Sandra Stanley argues that his works serve as a crucial link between American modernism and post- modernism.Like Ezra Pound, Zukofsky saw himself as a participant in the transformation of a modern American poetics; but unlike Pound, Zukofsky, the ghetto-born son of an immigrant Russian Jew, was keenly aware of his marginal position in society. Championing the importance of the little words, such as a and the , Zukofsky effected his own proletarian "revolution of the word."Stanley explains how Zukofsky emphasized the materiality of language, refusing to reduce it to a commodity controlled by an "authorial/authoritarian" self. She also describes his legacy to contemporary poets, particularly such Language poets as Ron Silliman and Charles Bernstein.
language: English
title: Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics
titlecomplete: Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics
ratings_count: 6
publisher: University of California Press