“Objectivists” 1927-1934 Section 14 - Editing the Poetry Issue Contents

Notes - Section 14 - Editing the Poetry Issue

1 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 30 October 1930, Yale.

2 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 9 November 1930, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 69-73, No. 30.

3 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 15 November 1930, Yale.

4 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 12 December 1930, Yale. Montemora, 8 (1981), 177-180.

5 Zukofsky, Letter to Roskolenkier, “Sunday co: 30,” Yale.

6 Zukofsky, Letter to Roskolenkier, 1 December 1930, Yale.

7 Zukofsky, Letter to Roskolenkier, 4 December 1930, Yale.

8 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 16 December 1930, Yale.

9 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 2 December 1930, Yale.

10 Zukofsky, Letter to Monroe, 15 December 1930, Poetry Papers, 1912-1936, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box 41, folder 14.

11 Poetry (February 1931), 295. Pound wrote against Article 211 in Exile, 4 (Autumn 1928), 22-23; reprinted as “Kick” in Morada, 1 (Autumn 1929), 11, and quoted the article in full in “Strange Bedfellows,” Chicago Tribune, Paris (7 December 1930), 4, and in Instigations, pp. 247-249.

12 Zukofsky, Letter to Monroe, 22 December 1930, Poetry Papers, 1912-1936, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box 41, folder 14.

13 Poetry (February 1931), 251. Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 16 December 1930 and 5 January 1931, Yale.

14 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 14 December 1931, Yale, Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 119-122, No. 45. See also Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 2 February 1931, Yale; Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 3 November 1931, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 27 December 1931, Yale; and Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 22 January 1932, Yale.

15 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 27 December 1931, Yale.

16 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 20 March 1931, Yale.

17 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 24 October 1930, Yale.

18 Zukofsky’s first letter to Rakosi and all Rakosi’s letters to Zukofsky have been lost. Statements about them are inferences based on Zukofsky’s letters and Rakosi’s recollections.

19 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 17 November 1930, Yale.

20 The Descent of Winter, in Imaginations, p. 258.

21 Carl Rakosi, “Notes to Zukofsky’s Letters,” unpublished manuscript, property of Carl Rakosi.

22 Rakosi, “Notes.”

23 Poetry (February 1931), 237-241, included “Orphean Lost,” “Fluteplayers from Finmarken,” “Unswerving Marine”, and “Before You.” In Amulet, these poems are separated, restored, and revised as, respectively, “Brewing Night Herbs,” p. 54, “Fluteplayers from Finmarken,” pp. 53-54, “Unswerving Marine,” p. 51, and “Origins,” pp. 56-58. “Revue,” “Death Song,” and “Dolce Padre and Ephebus” were published in Pagany, 2, 2 (April-June 1931), 21-23, and “The Founding of New Hampshire” in Pagany, 2, 3 (July-September 1931), 136. This last was formerly published with “Dolce Padre and Ephebus” in transition, 12 (March 1928), 123-124. In Amulet, “Revue 1,” p. 82, “Death Song,” p. 87, “Equipoise,” p. 65, and “The Founding of New Hampshire,” p. 37. “Washington Lincoln in the Tropics,” unavailable in its original form, was revised and published as part 1 of “African Theme, Needlework, Etc.” in Contact (Second Series), 1, 3 (October 1932), 35-36, and revised again as “Fantasy” for Amulet, pp. 71-72. “Chanson Sans Paroles,” revised, became the first part of “A Jounery Away,” An “Objectivists” Anthology (France, 1931; rpt. Folcroft Library Editions, 1975), p. 47; reprinted in Amulet, p. 58. See Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 26 September 1931, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. I have not identified “Panels for a Victrola.” “News” is not available in its original form, but was twice totally rewritten and combined with other material, receiving each time a new title; in Selected Poems (Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941), p.

24, it is “Surrealists (1930),” and in Amulet, pp. 14-20, perhaps restored closer to its original form, it is largely part 1 of “The City (1925).”

24 See Pound, Literary Essays, pp. 5, 7.

25 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 17 November 1930, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

26 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 24 November 1930, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. I also rely on Rakosi, “Notes.”

27 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 3 December 1930, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. I believe “Out of the Egg” became “The Beasts, III,” Poetry, 43, 2 (November 1933), 83-87; Modern Things, ed. Parker Tyler (New York: Henry Harrison, 1937), pp. 228-230; and, later, part 5 of “The City (l92S),” Amulet, pp. 19-20. “The Beasts, I and II” are distributed in Amulet into “The Creator,” pp. 7-8, “Institutions,” p. 12, “Lamp,” p. 12, and parts 2 and 4 of “The City (1925),” pp. 16, 18-19.

28 Rakosi, “Notes.”

29 Rakosi, “Notes.”

30 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 3 December 1930, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

31 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 9 December 1930, Yale.

32 Zukofsky, Letters to Pound, 7 and 16 December 1930, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

33 The Contemporary Writer, p. 216.

34 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 9 November 1930, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 69-73, No. 30.

35 Zukofsky, Letter to Monroe, 18 November 1930, Poetry Papers, 1912-1936, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box 41, folder 14.

36 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 7 December 1930, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

37 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 9 December 1930, Yale.

38 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 25 October 1930, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, p. 49, No. 25.

39 The Contemporary Writer, p. 216.

40 Zukofsky, Letter to Monroe, 22 December 1930, Poetry Papers, 1912-1936, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box 41, folder 14.