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| ====== Excerpt from "A" - 12 by Louis Zukofsky====== | |
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| **//The Serpent and the Fire// (pp. 512-514)** \\ | //The Serpent and the Fire// (pp. 512-514) \\ |
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| | ====== A - 12 (excerpt) by Louis Zukofsky====== |
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| ===== Biography of Louis Zukofsky ===== | ===== Biography of Louis Zukofsky ===== |
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| ===== Objectivist Movement ===== | ===== Objectivist Movement ===== |
| Book review about book about the Objectivists: [[https://journals.openedition.org/erea/9264#]] \\ | Zukofsky coined the term //Objectivists// (notably not "objectivism") when he guest edited the February 1931 issue of Poetry Magazine. He later edited [[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007592833 | An "Objectivists" anthology"]] (1977). Other Objectivists included William Carlos Williams, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Basil Bunting, and Lorine Niedecker. They believed that poems should be seen as an object, not a pass-through to experience. In order to draw attention to the poems, themselves, the Objectivists included, "deliberate syntactic fragmentation and by line breaks that disrupt normal speech rhythm" ([[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louis-zukofsky | Poetry Foundation]]\\ |
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| Book with digital access through IUP: The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde 1[[https://sshelco-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/202aau/TN_cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781421406114]] \\ | Positioning him relative to the Introspectivists, who were a contemporary Yiddish-language poetry movement, "Zukofsky, who went much further than the Introspectivists in his explorations of the relationships between external objects and subjective experience" (Ponichtera 13). |
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| Video (paper being presented) Ben Hickman - Communism and Modernism: the Case of Louis Zukofsky: [[https://youtu.be/9yyxGm6RrqI?si=_ecCgNz9cQx945cM]] | |
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| "This can be seen in his attempts to place his first major critical work, “Sincerity and Objectification: With Special Reference to the Works of Charles Reznikof” (1929) in the Menorah Journal...It is fascinating that the Menorah Journal editor considered the piece to be a translation, because in fact it was an original work, composed in English, meant to be the manifesto of a new poetic movement called Objectivism. The manifesto is quite obscure and complex, but does not necessarily convey the foreign to a modern reader. Something about Zukofsky’s literary voice, even when he was attempting to be the most modern, American, and literary version of himself, spoke to his contemporaries of the Old World that they had left behind" (Ponichtera 10). This submission was rejected. | |
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| Possitioning him relative to the Introspectivists: "Zukofsky, who went much further than the Introspectivists in his explorations of the relationships between external objects and subjective experience, doubtless also responded to this aspect of the poem" (Ponichtera 13). | |
| ===== [A-12] ===== | ===== [A-12] ===== |
| | A is an extremely long poem. It can be understood as a life's work. //"This poem, a life’s work begun in 1928, was ultimately published in its entirety in 1978 shortly after the poet’s death. Although the main body of the poem was completed by 1974, Zukofsky spent his final years composing an index for the poem, an effort that may be seen as integral to the writing of the poem, given the author’s extensive use of allusion and quotation" (Ponichtera 7)// |
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| Sections 1 - 12 on Internet Archive: [[https://archive.org/details/a1120000zuko]]\\ | * [[https://archive.org/details/a1120000zuko | Sections 1 - 12 can be read on Internet Archive]] |
| Sections 13 - 21 on Internet Archive: [[https://archive.org/details/a13210000zuko]]\\ | * [[https://archive.org/details/a13210000zuko | Sections 13 - 21 can be read on Internet Archive:]] |
| I have some screen shots of the index to upload later tonight\\ | * [[https://z-site.net/notes-to-a/a-12/ | Extensive notes for Section 12]] |
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| * Long poem (A 126-261) | |
| * This is where Rothenberg's version of the poem beings (A 138) | |
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| Here are notes for the section we're working on. I can't make heads or tails of them. [[https://z-site.net/notes-to-a/a-12/]] \\ | |
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| "This poem, a life’s work begun in 1928, was ultimately published in its entirety in 1978 shortly after the poet’s death. Although the main body of the poem was completed by 1974, Zukofsky spent his final years composing an index for the poem, an effort that may be seen as integral to the writing of the poem, given the author’s extensive use of allusion and quotation" (Ponichtera 7) | |
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| ==== Form ==== | ==== Form ==== |
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| Possibly see chapter 1 in this book: [[https://sshelco-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/sqqodt/01SSHELCO_IUP_ALMA51191438110003564]] | |
| * Unordered List Item flow charts (Z. 163) | * Unordered List Item flow charts (Z. 163) |
| * substance, being, non-being (A 164) | * substance, being, non-being (A 164) |
| * letter poems (A 231-234) | * letter poems (A 231-234) |
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| === Non-Word Symbols and Un-Vocalized Structures === | ==== Non-Word Symbols and Un-Vocalized Structures ==== |
| Rothenberg's selection in //The Serpent and the Fire// from Zukofsky's //A-12// begins at a natural starting point. Part of the illustrative work including non-word symbols is pulling the reader's attention to something significant—something worth thinking about. | Rothenberg's selection in //The Serpent and the Fire// from Zukofsky's //A-12// begins at a natural starting point. Part of the illustrative work including non-word symbols is pulling the reader's attention to something significant—something worth thinking about. |
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| | ==== A Meaning ==== |
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| ==== A Meaning? ==== | |
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| On the surface level Zukofsky writes about the relationship between his father, Paul, and his son, Paul. //A-12// contains many literary and cultural allusions to mythology, religion, philosophy, and twentieth-century history. Zukofsky was well read, and his poetry attempts to incite the imagination of the read through allusions to Shakespears' A Midsummer-Nights Dream (Bottom especially), esoteric readings of the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, words of wisdom from chassidic Rebbes, meditations on the passion of Christ, epic impressions of Greek myth, and don't forget B. Spinoza (A 188-89). | On the surface level Zukofsky writes about the relationship between his father, Paul, and his son, Paul. //A-12// contains many literary and cultural allusions to mythology, religion, philosophy, and twentieth-century history. Zukofsky was well read, and his poetry attempts to incite the imagination of the read through allusions to Shakespears' A Midsummer-Nights Dream (Bottom especially), esoteric readings of the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, words of wisdom from chassidic Rebbes, meditations on the passion of Christ, epic impressions of Greek myth, and don't forget B. Spinoza (A 188-89). |
| Overall, "Not merely a piece of linguistic showmanship, Zukofsky’s method of translation informs his overall poetics, which embraces the potential of bringing diverse and even clashing voices into conversation with one another" (Ponichtera 1). \\ | Overall, "Not merely a piece of linguistic showmanship, Zukofsky’s method of translation informs his overall poetics, which embraces the potential of bringing diverse and even clashing voices into conversation with one another" (Ponichtera 1). \\ |
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| External link: | External links: |
| * [[https://ingeveb.org/articles/louis-zukofsky-building-a-poetics-of-translation | Louis Zukofsky: Building a Poetics of Translation]] | * [[https://ingeveb.org/articles/louis-zukofsky-building-a-poetics-of-translation | Louis Zukofsky: Building a Poetics of Translation]] |
| * [[https://z-site.net/notes-to-poetry/poem-beginning-the/|You can read the full text of Poem beginning “The” online, here.]] | * [[https://z-site.net/notes-to-poetry/poem-beginning-the/|You can read the full text of Poem beginning “The” online, here.]] |
| Ahearn, Barry. "About //A//: Introduction." //A//. Louis Zukofsky, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2011, pp. vii-xix. | Ahearn, Barry. "About //A//: Introduction." //A//. Louis Zukofsky, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2011, pp. vii-xix. |
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| {{tag>NewYork Objectivist}} | {{tag>New_York Objectivist The_Baalshem}} |
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