Aside from the fact that Zukofskys short poems are intensely individualand their energy sings in a new way, they move in a circular path so thatwe may think in our time. Indeed they seem to move in all directions atonce each of the smallest and the most quiet a field of magnetic force.No poet is in touch at so many points with so much of the world aroundhim; no poet has written so comprehensively of domestic life; and nopoet has undertaken so sustained and original an effort to make politicalpoetry possible in this century of poetic and political extremes.A gathering of all of Zukofskys poems outside of