“Objectivists” 1927-1934 Section 9 - History 1929-1930 Contents

Notes - Section 9 - History 1929-1930

1 Pound, Letter to Vogel, 23 January 1929, Selected Letters 1907-1941, ed. D. D. Paige (New York: New Directions, 1971), p. 223, No. 234.

2 Rexroth, American Poetry, p. 106.

3 Spector was not published for lack of space; Pound refused to be included, except in the program; Gregory was held over for the March issue; Ford and Tyler contributed to a symposium included as part of the program (see Section 16).

4 Pound, Letter to Charles Henri Ford, 1 February 1929, Selected Letters, pp. 223-224, No. 235. Pound, “Program 1929,” Blues: A Magazine of New Rhythms, 2 (March 1929), p. 29; in Selected Letters, p. 223.

5 See Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 4 December 1928, Yale. The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Ed. Barry Ahearn. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, pp. 24.

6 See Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 12 December 1930, Montemora (1981), 178.

7 Williams, The Autobiography, p. 174.

8 Rexroth, American Poetry, p. 62.

9 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 25 January 1929, Yale. The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Ed. Barry Ahearn. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, pp. 27.

10 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 28 January 1929, Yale.

11 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 18 September 1929, Yale; reporting Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 23 August 1929, The Poetry/ Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo. The Correspondence, no. 54, p. 34.

12 Zukofsky referred to the group “Four Poems (l926-1927)” published in Blues, 8 (Spring 1930).

13 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 18 September 1929, Yale. Correct spelling: Lowenthal (Jesse).

14 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 22 November 1929, Yale. The annual includes “Editing and Glosses” and his translation of his mother’s “Autobiography” which Reznikoff edited for his novel By the Waters of Manhattan (New York: Charles Boni, 1930) and again for Family Chronicle (New York: Charles Reznikoff, 1963). The poems are designated by page and number from Five Groups of Verse. In CPI, they are, respectively, by page/number and title: 15/10, 16/14, 24/20, 30/9, 33/13, 34/16 “Against,” 35/20, 41/1 “Sunday Walks in the Suburbs,” 43/10 “A Tapestry,” 45/18, 48/25, 63/48. “ldyll” is in Jerusalem the Golden, CPI, 113/28.

15 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 19 December 1929, Montemora (1981), 156.

16 Pound, Letter to Williams, 2 December 1929, Selected Letters, pp. 225-226, No. 238.

17 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 9 December 1929, Montemora (1981), 155. Pound refers to Bloom of James Joyce’s Ulysses, who is Jewish.

18 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 19 December 1929, Montemora (1981), 156.

19 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 31 December 1929, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

20 Poetry (February l931), 284-285.

21 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 31 December 1929, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. “Bob” is McAlmon.

22 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 10 January 1930, Yale.

23 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 12 January 1930, Yale.

24 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 14 January 1930, Yale. The Correspondence, pp. 55-56.

25 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 27 January 1930, Yale.

26 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 3 February 1929, Yale (or Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin).

27 Celia Zukofsky, A Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1969), p. 47.

28 Zukofsky, “(Spinoza in a Winter Season)” and “September among the headstones,” Criterion, 8, 32 (April 1929), 420-421.

29 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 31 October 1929, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

30 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 14 November 1929, Yale. The Correspondence, p. 47. See Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 20 September 1929, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

31 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 10 March 1930, Yale.

32 Harriet Monroe, Recommendation to the Guggenheim Foundation of Louis Zukofsky, Poetry Papers, 1912-1936, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box 41, folder 14.

33 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 24 September 1929, Yale.

34 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 23 November 1929, Yale.

35 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 29 December 1929, Yale, and Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 6 May 1930, Yale.

36 A Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky, p. 25.

37 Zukofsky, Letters to Pound, 12 January and 27 June 1930, Yale.

38 Criterion, 10, 40 (April 1931), 424-440.

39 See Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 16 October 1930, Yale. A Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky, p. 26. See Pound, Selected Letters, p. 240, No. 253.

40 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 12 February 1929, Yale.

41 Guide to Kulchur (1938; rpt. New York: New Directions, 1970), pp. 51-52.

42 See Zukofsky, “Charles Reznikoff: Sincerity and Objectification”; Section 8.

43 Zukofsky, Reply to Mr. Schappes, 3 March 1933, Poetry Papers, 1912-1936, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box 41, folder 14. See Poetry, 42, 2 (May 1933), 117.

44 Williams, Letters to Zukofsky, 24 October and 3 November 1929, Yale. The Correspondence, pp. 45, 47.

45 “The Work of Gertrude Stein,” Pagany, 1, 1 (Winter 1930), 42-46; in A Novelette and Other Prose (France: To Publishers, 1931); Imaginations, pp. 344-351.

46 Wallace, A Bibliography of William Carlos Williams, p. 186. Is U.S.A. related to the States Quarterly? Collected Poems 1921-1931 (New York: The Objectivist Press, 1934), pp. 121-124.

47 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 25 January 1929, Yale. The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Ed. Barry Ahearn. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, pp. 27. Also Wallace, p. 30.

48 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 7 February 1929, Yale. The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Ed. Barry Ahearn. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, pp. 27. Also Wallace, pp. 28-29.

49 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 4 March 1929, Yale. The Correspondence, pp. 30-31.

50 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 18 September 1929, Yale.