Written between 1947 and 1960 and first published in 1963, the prose work in the first of these two volumes reflects Louis Zukofsky's ongoing obsession with Shakespeare—whose plays he had first seen performed in Yiddish—and is central to understanding Zukofsky's work. Tracing the themes of knowledge, love and physical vision (“the eyes have it”) through both Shakespeare’s plays and the poetry, Bottom: On Shakespeare is more than a compendious act of homage by one poet to another. In effect, it lays out Zukofsky's poetics and theory of knowledge on a grand scale, tracing his themes through the whole of Western culture, from the Classical Greeks through William Carlos Williams. The second volume of Bottom: On Shakespeare consists of Celia Thaew Zukofsky's spare operatic setting of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play in which Zukofsky saw Shakespeare rewriting the classic plots and tropes of the Odyssey. The Wesleyan edition features a new foreword by Bob Perelman.
Louis Zukofsky Boeken
Louis Zukofsky is een sleutelfiguur onder de Amerikaanse modernistische dichters van de tweede generatie. Als medeoprichter en leidende theoreticus van de Objectivistische dichtersgroep had hij een aanzienlijke invloed op latere generaties dichters, zowel in Amerika als internationaal. Zijn werk kenmerkt zich door intellectuele diepgang en een nauwgezette verkenning van taal, wat hem tot een essentiële figuur maakt voor het begrip van de evolutie van de moderne poëzie.
"A"
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["A", 1928-78, ZUKOFSKY] At long last, here is the whole of Louis Zukofsky’s epic masterpiece “A” back in print with misprints corrected and a new, fresh introduction by the noted scholar Barry Ahearn. No other poem in the English language is filled with as much daily love, light, intellect, and music. As William Carlos Williams once wrote of Zukofsky’s poetry, “I hear a new music of verse stretching out into the future.”
Central to the exploration of 20th-century poetry, this collection features critical essays by Louis Zukofsky, showcasing his poetics and insights throughout his career. The work includes thoughtful analyses of prominent literary figures such as Henry Adams, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound, reflecting Zukofsky's profound understanding of poetic art. Originally published in 1967 and expanded in 1981, these essays remain significant contributions to literary criticism and the study of poetry.
The Poets' Collection
Englischsprachige Lyrik im Originalton und in deutscher Übersetzung
Die größte zweisprachige Lyrik-Anthologie im Originalton versammelt 94 englischsprachige Lyrikerinnen und Lyriker und bietet seltene Sprachaufnahmen, die in mehrjähriger Recherche zusammengetragen wurden. Die Anthologie nimmt die Hörer mit auf eine zeitliche und geographische Reise durch das letzte Jahrhundert der englischsprachigen Welt. Die Übersetzungen werden von erstklassigen Schauspielern gelesen und stammen von angesehenen Lyrikern und Übersetzern. Zu den vertretenen Dichtern gehören Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, Edith Sitwell, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald Macleish, Dorothy Parker, E. E. Cummings, Robert Ranke Graves, Louise Bogan, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Louis Zukofsky, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Elizabeth Bishop, John Cage, Karl Shapiro, Delmore Schwartz, Muriel Rukeyser, Dylan Thomas, James Laughlin, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Richard Wilbur, Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Michael Hamburger, Kenneth Koch, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Charles Tomlinson