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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======
  
 ===== Biography of Louis Zukofsky ===== ===== Biography of Louis Zukofsky =====
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-===== Form =====+==== Form ====
  
   * Unordered List Item flow charts (Z. 163)   * Unordered List Item flow charts (Z. 163)
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   * letter poems (A 231-234)   * letter poems (A 231-234)
  
-===== 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 =====+==== A Meaning ====
  
 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). 
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 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.
  
-{{tag>NewYork Objectivist}}+{{tag>New_York Objectivist The_Baalshem}}
  

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