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http://www.poetrybay.com/fall2007/foley1.html

Jack Foley has a review of the new LOUIS ZUKOFSKY: SELECTED POEMS, EDITED
BY CHARLES BERNSTEIN

LOUIS ZUKOFSKY: A POET WORTH FIGHTING FOR

A REVIEW OF LOUIS ZUKOFSKY: SELECTED POEMS,
EDITED BY CHARLES BERNSTEIN (THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA AMERICAN POETS PROJECT)

“Louis Zukofsky’s work has been edited and selected for the Library of
America’s American Poetry Project by prominent L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet
Charles Bernstein, and he has done a superb job. It is no easy task to
deal with a writer as enigmatic, even chameleonic as Louis
Zukofsky. Zukofsky’s poetry alone ranges from something like light verse
to an immensely complex, dense medium. It operates in both formal modes
and free verse.
“In his introduction to the Selected Poems Charles Bernstein remarks on
‘the intricate patterning of sound that everywhere pervades [Zukofsky’s]
work,’ on ‘the microtonal shifting of vowels,’ and goes on to write of
‘the syntactic rotation of the same words shifting to different parts of
speech.’ 
“Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems is an absolutely necessary book for anyone
seeking to understand twentieth-century American poetry. Zukofsky is a
master, but he is definitely a formidable master. Charles Bernstein’s
selection guides us through both accessible and "difficult" aspects of
Zukofsky and does it in a way that constantly sheds light on the work as a
whole. Bernstein’s introduction is also excellent: well-written and, in
general, compelling.”

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