Complete Short Poetry

About this book

The American poet Louis Zukofsky received little public attention during his lifetime though he was regarded by his literary contemporaries as one of the finest writers in the United States. Now in paperback Complete Short Poetry gathers all of Zukofskys poetry outside his 800-page magnum opus entitled " A"--including work that appeared in All: The Collected Short Poems 1923-1964 the experimental transliteration (with Celia Zukofsky) of Catullus the limited edition 80 Flowers as well as several fugitive pieces never before collected. "Zukofsky is the American Mallarm " writes Hugh Kenner "and given the peculiar intentness of the American preoccupation with language--obsessive despite what you may read in the newspapers--his work is more disorienting by far than his exemplars ever was. Mallarm had a long poetic tradition from which to deviate into philology. Zukofsky received a philological tradition which he raised to a higher power."