Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics(English, Hardcover, Stanley Sandra Kumamoto)

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Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics(English, Hardcover, Stanley Sandra Kumamoto) is written by Stanley Sandra Kumamoto and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520073576 (ISBN 10) and 9780520073579 (ISBN 13).

Viewing Louis Zukofsky as a reader, writer, and innovator of twentieth-century poetry, Sandra Stanley argues that his works serve as a crucial link between American modernism and post- modernism. Like Ezra Pound, Zukofsky saw himself as a participant in the transformation of a modern American poetics; but unlike Pound, Zukofsky, the ghetto-born son of an immigrant Russian Jew, was keenly aware of his marginal position in society. Championing the importance of the little words, such as a and the, Zukofsky effected his own proletarian "revolution of the word." Stanley explains how Zukofsky emphasized the materiality of language, refusing to reduce it to a commodity controlled by an "authorial/authoritarian" self. She also describes his legacy to contemporary poets, particularly such Language poets as Ron Silliman and Charles Bernstein.