“Objectivists” 1927-1934 Section 15 - Program: “Objectivists” 1931 Contents

Notes - Section 15 - Program: “Objectivists” 1931

1 “A”-6, An “Objectivists” Anthology, pp. 136-138; see “A”, pp. 24-26. For discussions of naturans, see Sections 3 and 19.

2 Zukofsky, “American Poetry 1920-1930,” Symposium (January 1931), 79; Prepositions, p. 148.

3 An “Objectivists” Anthology, p. 143; “A”, p. 30. V. I. Lenin referred with these words to the October Revolution of 1917, which terminated his composition of this treatise on the need for reestablishing original socialist tenets. 30 November 1917, The State and Revolution, in Collected Works, Volume 25 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1964), p. 492.

4 An “Objectivists” Anthology, p. 144; “A”, p. 32.

5 Poetry (February 1931), 268.

6 Moore, Observations, p. 20. Williams, Imaginations, 274. Symposium (January 1931), 76, 80; Prepositions, pp. 145, 148. See Section 12.

7 Williams, “Chapter XXVI: Bach,” A Voyage to Pagany, pp. 230-238. Zukofsky, “A”-1. An “Objectivists” Anthology, pp. 112-117; “A”, pp. 1-5. See Section 4.

8 Pound, “The Exile,” Exile, 1 (Spring 1927), 89.

9 Poetry (February 1931), 268. See Symposium (January 1931), 72; Prepositions, p. 142; Section 12.

10 Hemingway, 88 Poems, pp. 141-143.

11 Pound, “Small Magazines,” English Journal, 19, 9 (November 1930), 700.

12 English Journal (November 1930), 700-701.

13 Poetry (February 1931), 269. Carnevali’s life is told in Williams’ Autobiography, pp. 266-269.

14 Poetry (February 1931), 269.

15 See Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 12 December 1930, Yale. Montemora, 8 (1981), 177-180. Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 18 November 1930, Yale. See also “Canto XIII,” The Cantos (New York: New Directions, 1975), p. 60, in which Kung recalls “when the historians left blanks in their writings, / I mean for things they didn’t know”; Pound, in English Journal (November 1930), 695, wrote of the editor of the Little Review: “Some years later (i.e., in, I think, 1916) Miss Anderson printed a number with half the pages blank and the threat to print the next number wholly blank if she couldn’t find something to put in it.”

16 Poetry (February 1931), 269.

17 Poetry (February 1931), 272.

18 Poetry (February 1931), 271.

19 English Journal (November 1930), 689.

20 English Journal (November 1930), 689, 690, 702.

21 An “Objectivists” Anthology, p. 9.

22 Mary Oppen, Meaning a Life, p. 137. Mary titles Trotsky’s book History of the Soviet Union.

23 Leon Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution, trans. Max Eastman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936), pp. xvii, xxi.

24 Robert von Hallberg, Charles Olson: “The Scholars’ Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), p. 120.

25 “The Exile,” Exile (Spring 1927), 90.

26 Poetry (February 1931), 272.