ZUKOFSKY, Louis

There is no doubt that Zukofsky did something unprecedented in literature, particularly in poetry, but exactly what is hard to say, even two decades after his death. To point out that he was obscure or that his work remains mostly incomprehensible is merely to avoid the issue of whether greater understanding is possible. Zukofsky worked with unusual forms, including a numerical counterpoint in his early classic Poem Beginning The; he produced a musical Autobiography in collaboration with his wife,...