Prepositions + The Collected Critical Essays [Paperback]

Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays, published first in 1967 and then in an expanded edition in 1981, was a definitive set of critical statements by Louis Zukofsky, one of the most important poets of the 20th century. These central expositions of Zukofsky's own poetics, and enduring examinations of the art of poetry, range over the entire length of Zukofsky's career and include sensitive and prescient readings of Henry Adams, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, and others.

Prepositions + brings this essential collection back into print, and adds generous selections of Zukofsky's uncollected prose, most notably the crucial 5 Statements for Poetry. Published in a small edition in 1958 and out of print ever since, 5 Statements gathers the essays that Zukofsky felt best presented his own poetics. Among them are the three essays, in their original and expansive forms, that crystallized the Objectivist movement of the early 1930s. Prepositions + also includes an extended in-depth interview in which Zukofsky discusses his poetry and poetics.An indispensable collection of an avant-garde poet's literary essays.Foreword – Charles Bernstein
Prefatory Note
FOR
Poetry/For My Son When He Can Read
An Objective
A Statement for Poetry
For Wallace Stevens
WITH
Golgonzooná?
William Carlos Williams
The Effacement of Philosophy
Modern Times
Lewis Carroll
Ezra Pound
Him
Henry Adams/A Criticism in Autobiography
With Little/For Careenagers
ABOUT
Influence
Poetic Values
American Poetry 1920-1930
Dometer Guczul
Basic
Work/Sundown
Bottom, a weaver
Found Objects (1962-1926)
About the Gas Age
Index to Definitions
LOUIS ZUKOFSKY ADDITIONAL PROSE
Introduction- Mark Scroggins
STATEMENTS FOR POETRY (1958)
Foreword
Program: “Objectivists” 1931 (from Poetry, February 1931)
“Recencies” in Poetry (a talk, printed in An &l“,