“Objectivists” 1927-1934 Section 19 - The Poetry Contents

Notes - Section 19 - The Poetry

1 Poetry, 37, 5 (February 1931), 237. [The Poetry Foundation now provides this issue online.

2 Poetry (February 1931), 262, 289-293, 285-289.

3 Rakosi, Letter to I. P. Stone, 1923, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; see Section 2.

4 Ovid, The Metamorphoses, trans. Horace Gregory (New York: New American Library, 1960), pp. 275-276.

5 Poetry (February 1931), 237.

6 Prepositions, pp. 138-140. See Section 12.

7 Selected Prose, pp. 374-375. See Section 8.

8 “A”, pp. 22-23. See Sections 4 and 19.

9 Personal interview, 28 November 1978, San Francisco,.

10 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 17 November 1930, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. See Section 14.

11 Poetry (February 1931), 238-239.

12 Poetry (February 1931), 239-240.

13 Prepositions, p. 147. See Section 12.

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

15 Zukofsky, Letter to Rakosi, 6 February 1931—of Rakosi’s poem “Pistis Sophia,” Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

16 Poetry (February 1931), 240-241.

17 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 9 November 1930, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 69-73, No. 30. See Section 14.

18 Poetry (February 1931), 247-250. I quote from, respec- tively, lines 6-10, 25-32, 38-57, 61-73, and 81-82.

19 Zukofsky, Letter to Zabel, 19 February 1931, Zabel Papers, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box III, folder 27.

20 Jerusalem the Golden (New York: The Objectivist Press, 1934), Nos. 59, 6, 69, 40, 39, and 38; CPI, pp. 119, 108, 121, 115, 115, and 115.

21 Poetry (February 1931), 252-253.

22 Rexroth, Letter to Monroe, 6 January 1931, Poetry Papers, 1912-1936, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box 19, folder 12.

23 “A Prolegomenon to a Theodicy,” The Collected Longer Poems (New York: New Directions, 1970), pp. 37-60; An “Objectivists” Anthology, pp. 53-78. The anthology version omits only roman-numeral section titles and one italic phrase, perhaps due to printer’s error, “Sursum corda” (p. 51). Some lines in italics in the final version are not in italics in the anthology. Zukofsky seems to have changed only one line, in accord with the “Objectivist” principle of sin- cerity: “the snow bled as the horses crossed it” (p. 42) became “the horses bled crossing the snow” (p. 57). Zukofsky’s shortened version of the first part of the poem appears in the “Collaborations” section of anthology, pp. 189-192, dated “aug. 29,” and followed by these notes:

The suggestion was that Part A of Prolegomena to a Theodicy, as well as the entire poem, would be improved by printing Part A a, above. Mr. Rexroth’s original is printed in section I of this volume. L.Z.

I have read this over once more. I cannot allow it to be printed with my signature. You can append a note that it has been abridged by L.Z. if you wish, or print it entire or don’t print it at all. It simply makes no sense to me at all. K.R.

24 Poetry (February 1931), 254-255.

25 Rexroth, Letter to Monroe, 6 January 1931, Poetry Papers, 1912-1936, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box 19, folder 12.

26 Rexroth, Letter to Monroe, 12 January 1931, Poetry Papers, 1912-1936, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library, box 19, folder 12.

27 Williams, “The New Political Economy,” Poetry, 44, 4 (July 1934), 221. See Section 6.

28 Pound, Translations, p. 24.

29 Poetry (February 1931), 260-261. Ode 15: “Nothing . . . “ Collected Poems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), pp. 89-90.

30 I refer to Zukofsky, Letter to Monroe, 12 October 1930, and Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 6 November 1930, Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 64-68, No. 29. I also rely on Rakosi, ‘Notes.”

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

32 Poetry (February 1931), 266-267.

33 Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Language,” Major Writers of America, I, ed. Perry Miller (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962), pp. 494-495.

34 Selected Essays, p. 165.

35 Selected Essays, p. 165.

36 Poetry (February 1931), 246, 294. English Journal (November 1930), 701. See also Pound, Selected Letters, p. 223. The obituary date was sent to Pound by Zukofsky on 19 September 1928, Yale. Weeks’ “Stunt Piece” appeared in Exile, 3 (Spring 1928), 93-94.

37 Poetry (February 1931), 253.

38 Poetry (February 1931), 255.

39 Poetry (February 1931), 257.

40 Poetry (February 1931), 258.

41 Ricky died 9 September 1926. See Reno Odlin, “Materials toward an Essay on Zukofsky’s ‘A’,” Paideuma, 9, 3, (Winter 1980), 555-556, and letter to the editor, 27 October 1981, Paideuma, 10, 1 (Spring 1981), 187. See “A”, pp. 9-10.

42 Poetry (February 1931), 259. Hamlet, I.i.18-19: “Bernardo: Say, / What, is Horatio there? / Horatio: A piece of him.”

43 Poetry (February 1931), 261.

44 Zukofsky, Poetry (February 1931), 280; see Section 8.

45 Poetry (February 1931), 278-279.

46 Poetry (February 1931), 262.

47 Poetry (February 1931), 262. The originals are “Veilleés” and “A une raison,” Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, trans. Wallace Fowlie (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), pp. 247, 246. Carnevali is discussed in Section 15. Pound described his health, Letter to Zukofsky, 28 October 1930, Montemora, 8 (1981), 167-168. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 54-58, No. 27.

48 Poetry (February 1931), 263.

49 Poetry (February 1931), 264-265.

50 Poetry (February 1931), 265.