The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde

by Ruth Jennison

Book Overview

Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker wrote with a diversity of formal strategies but a singularity of purpose: the crafting of an anticapitalist poetics.

Inaugurated in 1931 by Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poetry gave expression to the complex contours of culture and politics in America during the Great Depression. This study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation, George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker, elaborates the dialectic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142142701X
• ISBN13: 9781421427010
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"