“Objectivists” 1927-1934 Section 3 - Louis Zukofsky Contents

Notes - Section 3 - Louis Zukofsky

1 Louis Zukofsky, with music by Celia Thaew Zukofsky, Autobiography (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1970), p. [5].

2 (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1970), pp. 119-120. “Careenagers” refers to the leaning of ships on their sides, as in drydock for repairs. This information is from an autograph manuscript by Zukofsky at Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

3 Personal interview with Celia Zukofsky 8 June 1979, Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY. Louis died 12 May 1978. See Fielding Dawson, “A Memoir of Louis Zukofsky,” and Carroll F. Terrell, “Conversations with Celia,” Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, 7, 3 (Winter 1978), 571, 591.

4 Autobiography, p. [7]: “The composer set the words to the ‘forms’ I asked for—to which I had perhaps no right, unable to compose them myself; but in following my wish or whim she also did something else—showing me that apart from my impositions on my words and her, the words had potentially their own tunes which she followed even more carefully to complete for me.”

5 “Motet,” Autobiography, p. 11; printed with its music in All: The Collected Short Poems 1923-1964 (New York: Norton, 1971), p. 212.

6 “So that even a lover: #1,” Autobiography, p. 51; All, p. 122.

7 “Light: #10,” Autobiography, p. 31; All, p. 127.

8 Autobiography, p. 13.

9 "A" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), pp. 143-160. This passage is on p. 148.

10 Henry James, The American Scene (1907; rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968), pp. 130-139. Zukofsky’s claim is not literally true, as Barry Ahearn, having examined Leon Edel’s summary of James’s itinerary, has pointed out. Personal interview, 27 December 1981, New York City.

11 Pound, “Henry James,” Instigations (1920; rpt. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969), p. 117.

12 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 6 January 1931, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Carroll F. Terrell, “Louis Zukofsky: An Eccentric Profile,” Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet, ed. Carroll F. Terrell (Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 1979). pp. 35-36.

13 All, p. 47. "A", pp. 108-111.

14 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 6 January 1931, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

15 Autobiography, p. 33.

16 Kenneth Rexroth, American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (New York: Herder and Herder, 1971), pp. 13-14.

17 Terrell, Paiduema (Winter 1978), 585-600. Hugh Seidman, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Greeley, and Celia Zukofsky, ‘A Commemorative Evening for Louis Zukofsky,” American Poetry Review, Special Supplement, 9, 1 (January/February 1980), 25.

18 All, p. 11. The poem itself is on pp. 12-22.

19 “Parliament of Fowls,” line 24.

20 Hamlet, II, ii, 585-586.

21 Symposium, 2, 1 (January 1931), 73; see Section 12.

22 “Zuk. Yehoash David Rex,” Paideuma (Winter 1978), 558-569.

23 Paideuma (Winter 1978), 566.

24 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe. intro. Hervey Allen (New York: Modern Library, 1938), p. 1017.

25 A Homemade World, p. 185.

26 Wallace Stevens, “Williams,” Collected Poems 1921-1931 (New York: The Objectivist Press, 1934), pp. 1-4.

27 I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Work of a Poet (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958), p. 52.

28 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 6 September 1927, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky. Ed. Barry Ahearn, New York: New Directions, 1987, pp. 5-6, No. 2.

29 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 21 July 1928, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

30 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 5 March 1928, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 7-8, No. 4.

31 Exile 4 (Autumn 1928), 86-87. Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, trans. T. E. Hulme and J. Roth (Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1950), pp. 38-39.

32 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 5 March 1928, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 7-8, No. 4.

33 Instigations (1920; rpt. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969), pp. 69-83.

34 Instigations, p. 82.

35 Instigations, p. 83.

36 Instigations, pp. 80-81.

37 Poetry (February 1931), 268.

38 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 20 March 1928, Yale; Pound/Zukofsky, no.5, pp. 9-10. Barry Ahearn, in “Notes on a Convocation of Disciplines,” Montemora, 4 (1978), 257, locates natura naturans in Spinoza, Ethics, Part I, Prop. XXIV, note, and applies the distinction between naturans and naturata to “A”.

39 An “Objectivists” Anthology, pp. 134-136; “A”, pp. 22-24.

40 Gaudier-Brzeska, p. 89. Although this passage was printed in “Vortecism” in the Fortnightly Review (1 September 1914), Zukofsky did not find it in Gaudier-Brzeska until December 1929; Donald Gallup, A Bibliography of Ezra Pound (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963), p. 37; Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 12 December 1929, Yale. The passage of “A”-6 was written in the early summer of 1930; “‘Recencies’ in Poetry,” An “Objectivists” Anthology, p. 9.

41 Gaudier-Brzeska, p. 90.

42 Williams, “Objectivism,” Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, eds. Alex Preminger, Frank J. Warnke, and O. B. Hardison, Jr. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965), p. 582. See also Williams, The Autobiography (New York: New Directions, 1967), pp. 264-265.

43 Paraphrase of several passages, Ethics (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1910), pp. 84-85, 145, 155, 167, and 203.

44 Letter received from Rakosi, 7 August 1979.

45 Exile 4 (Autumn 1928), 78-84.