“Objectivists” 1927-1934 Section 23 - The Shared World Contents

Notes - Section 23 - The Shared World

1 Exile, 3 (Spring 1928), 102; in Impact, p. 222.

2 Allen, Only Yesterday, p. 242.

3 “Prolegomena,” Exile, 2 (Autumn 1927), 35; Impact, p. 221, and Selected Prose, p. 216.

4 Exile, 1 (Spring 1927), 89; Selected Prose, p. 214; see Section 1.

5 Exile, 3 (Spring 1928), 104; see Section 1.

6 Zukofsky, Prepositions, pp. 67-68. Zukofsky quotes Pound, Selected Poems (New York: New Directions, 1957), p. 61; ed., The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry (San Francisco: City Lights, 1969), p. 23.

7 The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition, ed. John J. McDermott (New York: Random House, 1967), pp. 311, 377.

8 Williams, “A 1 Pound Stein,” Selected Essays, p. 165.

9 Williams, Letter to Pound, 15 March 1933, Selected Letters, pp. 138-139, No. 96.

10 New York Herald Tribune Books, 17 (13 January 1929, [1], 6; 18 (20 January 1921), [1], 5-6. English edition: (London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1931). Prolegomena I: How to Read Followed by the Spirit of Romance Part I (Le Beausset, France: To Publishers, 1932).

11 Polite Essays (1937; rpt. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1966), 165-165; Literary Essays, pp. 21-22.

12 Kenneth Burke, “William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963,” William Carlos Williams: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. J. Hillis Miller (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966), p. 52. “Tactus eruditus” appears in “Della Primavera Trasportata al Morale,” Collected Poems 192l-193l (New York: The Objectivist Press, 1934), p. 64; Collected Earlier Poems (New York: New Directions, 1951), p. 63.

13 Mary Duval; quoted in Reed Whittemore, William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975), p. 238, n. 376. Williams’ original, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” first appeared untitled in Spring and All (Paris: 1923; rpt. San Francisco: Frontier Press, 1970), p. 78, No. XXII; in Imaginations, p. 138; in Collected Poems 1921-1931, p. 95; and in Collected Earlier Poems, p. 277:

14 The Contemporary Writer, p. 173.

15 Montemora (Fall 1975), 133.

16 The Writings of William James, p. 311.

17 Zukofsky, Poetry (February 1931), 280.

18 The Contemporary Writer, pp. 174-175.

19 The Contemporary Writer, pp. 199-200.

20 The Contemporary Writer, pp. 207-208. Reznikoff quoted here from notes he prepared for the interview, which are published as Sparrow 52: “First, there is the Need,” (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, January 1977).

21 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 12 August 1928, Montemora (1981), 153.

22 Charles Norman, Ezra Pound, Revised Edition (New York: Minerva Press, 1969), p. 287. 1933 was also the year Pound met Mussolini and wrote (largely in February) Jefferson and/or Mussolini: L’ldea Statale, Fascism as I have Seen It (London, 1935; rpt. New York: Liveright, 1970).

23 Pound, Rev. Cambridge Left, Poetry, 42, 6 (September 1933), 353-355.

24 Rexroth, American Poetry, pp. 117-118.

25 Williams, “Art and Politics: The Editorship of BLAST,” A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists, ed. Bran Dijkstra (New York: New Directions, 1978), p. 75.

26 Williams, “The Neglected Artist,” A Recognizable Image, pp. 83, 90-95.

27 Martin J. Rosenblum, “Carl Rakosi: Chronology,” “Carl Rakosi’s Americana Poems: Objectivist Word Machines from an American Assembly Line,” Diss. University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee 1980, pp. v- viii.

28 Personal interview with Carl Rakosi, 11 September 1981, San Francisco.

29 The Contemporary Writer, p. 204.

30 American Poetry, p. 113.

31 The Contemporary Writer, p. 192.

32 Rosenblum, pp. v-viii.

33 Meaning a Life, pp. 152-160.

34 The Contemporary Writer, p. 188.

35 Meaning a Life, p. 158.

36 The Contemporary Writer, p. 187.

37 Meaning a Life, pp. 167-202. The Contemporary Writer, p. 189.

38 Carroll F. Terrell, “Louis Zukofsky: An Eccentric Profile,” Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet, pp. 62-63.

39 Personal interview with Celia Zukofsky, 8 June 1978, Port Jefferson, NY.

40 Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet, pp. 60, 37.

41 “A”, p. 106.

42 An “Objectivists” Anthology, p. l4.

43 “A”, pp. 61, 45, 57.

44 Morris U. Schappes, “Historic and Contemporary Particulars,” rev. of An “Objectivists” Anthology, Poetry, 41, 6 (March 1933), 340-343.

45 Zukofsky, Letter, Poetry, 42, 2 (May 1933), 117.

46 An “Qhjectivists” Anthology, p. 24.

47 Zukofsky, All, pp. 23-73.

48 Adrienne Rich, “Beyond the Heirlooms of Tradition,” rev. of Found Objects, Poetry, 60, 2 (November 1964), 128-129.

49 All, pp. 73-80.

50 “A”, pp. 214-215.

51 New Directions in Prose and Poetry, 1938 (1939; rpt. New York: Kraus, 1967), pp. 96, 97, 134; “A”, pp. 47, 48, 89.

52 “A”, p. 207.

53 Robert Duncan, “As Testimony: Reading Zukofsky These Forty Years,” Paideuma (Winter 1978), 427.

54 The Manner Music, intro. Robert Creeley (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977). “Autobiography: Hollywood,” CPII, pp. 38-47.

55 CPI, pp. 128-129, 175-177.

56 CPII, pp. 60, 119, 120, 147.

57 Holocaust (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977), p. [7].

58 Holocaust, pp. 73, 111.

59 Geoffrey O’Brien, Rev. of By the Well of Living and Seeing and Holocaust, Montemora (Fall 1975), 160.

60 Literary Essays, p. 3.

61 Poetry (February 1931), 269.

62 Letter received from Rakosi, 14 September 1979.

63 Literary Essays, p. 21.

64 Rakosi, “Travelogue,” rev. of Cross-Country by Solon Barber, Poetry, 42, 1 (April 1933), 53.

65 Rakosi, “William Carlos Williams,” Symposium, 4, 4 (October 1933), 439-440. The final quotation is from Williams, The Descent of Winter, “11/1: Introduction,” Imaginations, p. 247.

66 Pound, The Spirit of Romance (New York: New Directions, 1968), p. 159.

67 Symposium (October 1933), 440.

68 Symposium (October 1933), 440.

69 American Poetry, pp. 106-107.

70 Symposium (January 1931), 61, 65-68, 70.

71 American Poetry, pp. 107-108.

72 Richard Ellman and Robert O’Clair, eds., The Norton Anthology of Nodern Poetry (New York: Norton, 1973), pp. 432-435, quoting Ransom’s The World Body, pp. 39-40, 60.

73 Letter received from Rakosi, 28 August 1979.

74 “The Phoenix Nest: A Serious Craftsman,” Saturday Review of Literature, 10, 36 (24 March 1934), 580.

75 “The Objectivists,” rev. of An “Objectivists” Anthology, Hound and Horn, 6, 1 (October-December 1932), 158-160. To these reviews could also be added Allen Tate’s reviews of Pound’s How to Read and Profile, Poetry, 41, 2 (November 1932), 107-112.

76 Rev. of Discrete Series, Nation, 139, 3602 (18 July 1934), 84. 778 Charles Henry Newman and Herman Spector, “How Objective is Objectivism?” revs of Collected Poems 1921-1931, Jerusalem the Golden, and Testimony, Dynamo: A Journal of Revolutionary Poetry, 1, 3 (Summer 1934), 26-30.

78 Williams, “Belly Music,” Others (July 1919), 25-32.

79 Literary Essays, p. 21.