Louis Zukofsky

Louis Zukofsky ( born January 23, 1904 in New York City; † May 12, 1978 in Port Jefferson, New York) was an American writer and poet who was one of the founders of the Objectivist poetry movement ( Objectivists ).

Life

Zukofsky comes from an Orthodox Jewish family orientation. The parents had immigrated from Lithuania to the United States. After school he studied at Columbia University and graduated in 1924 with a Master of Arts ( MA) and wrote already during this time his first poems. Influenced by the minimalist school of William Carlos Williams he was doing next to Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi and the so-called Objectivists in American literature. In 1932, he was out with Williams to Objectivists Anthology, in which his poems have been published.

At his most important work, the poem A he worked for several decades until his death and published the first part First Half of "A" in 1940. Complete version was published in 1978 in the year of his death and is mainly concerned with the relationship between literature, music, aesthetics, history and philosophy.

His first anthology appeared in 1941 under the title Poems 55. 1947 he was appointed to a professorship at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he taught for nearly twenty years until 1966.

In addition, he published more books of poetry with resulting partly already during the 1920s poems like Bottom: On Shakespeare (1963 ), All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958 (1965 ) and All: The Collected Short Poems, 1956-1964 (1966 ). In addition to the novel Little: A fragment for Careenagers (1967) and the novel Ferdinand (1968 ) he published in 1968 a collection of his essays Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky. In 1962 appeared the play Arise, Arise (1962).

Zukofwsky works that appeared copybook in the literary magazine, have been translated into French by Anne -Marie and Claude Albiach Royet - Journoud.

His son is the violinist and conductor Paul Zukofsky, who as a musical prodigy created a stir already in the 1950s.

External links and sources

• Louis Zukofsky in the Notable Names Database (English)
• Poets.org
• Poetry Foundation
• From Poetics & Polemics: Louis Zukofsky, a Reminiscence ( Poems and Poetics )
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, pp. 1648, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2

Background literature

• B. Ahearn: Louis Zukofsky 's "A": An Introduction, 1980

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• Literature (United States)
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• Born in 1904
• Died in 1978
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