Louis Zukofsky, who died in 1978 at the age of seventy-four largely unknown to the majority of critics and readers of American poetry, was one of the century's most fascinating and accomplished poets. Physically and personally unprepossessing--an...

If the twentieth century still harbors a major but undiscovered poet, that poet is surely Louis Zukofsky. Not that he has been entirely unrecognized; indeed, early he earned the praise of an older generation of Titans, of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot,...

The small and quirky group of writings that comprises Louis Zukofsky's fiction is undoubtedly destined to be read as an appendage to the main corpus of a major twentieth-century American poet. Zukofsky always saw himself as a poet first, despite experimenting extensively in...

Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. By MARK SCROGGINS. (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 1998. xvi + 398 pp. $49.95 (paperbound $24.95). Mark Scroggins usefully and accurately describes this book as 'an advanced introduction to...

In the following essay, Comens asserts that Zukofsky's poetry heralds postmodernism through the negation of the absolute.

An American educator and critic, Ahearn is the author of Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction (1983). In the following essay, he explicates the origins of the collage method evident in "A."

In the following essay, Tomas explicates "Poem beginning 'The'" as a statement by Zukofsky on his situation as a Jew in modern, secular Western society.