Louis Zukofsky
American objectivist poet whose A is one of the most ambitious long poems in English, composed over 45 years. His influence on Language poetry and later experimentalists has been enormous.
Works
- 29 PoemsEarly collection with condensed lyric poems emphasizing musical sound
- 55 PoemsExperimental poems using musical notation and compressed syntax
- AnewLove poems and shorter lyrics exploring feeling and form
- A 1-12Opening sections of Zukofsky's epic modernist poem A
- A 13-21Later sections of Zukofsky's monumental poem combining history and technique