Description: A gathering of all of Zukofsky's poems outside of "A" -- poems that are "absolute clarification, crystal cabinets full of air and angels" (Kenneth Rexroth).
Brief description: Louis Zukofsky spent forty-six years writing his masterwork "A," and died before he could see the completed version published. Poet, translator, fiction writer, essayist, anthologist, critic, teacher, WPA worker, and binding force of the Objectivist poets, Zukofsky was born in New York City and lived in or near the city his whole life.
Review Quotes: Aside from the fact that Zukofsky's short poems are intensely individual and their energy sings in a new way, they move in a circular path 'so that we may think in our time.' Indeed they seem to move in all directions at once -- each of the smallest and the most quiet a field of magnetic force.--Lorine Niedecker