Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Louis Zukofsky, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA guidelines for web sites

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General articles

Breslin, Glenna. "Between Niedecker and Zukofsky, An Excerpt," a short article on the letters exchanged between Niedecker and Zukofsky, in HOW(ever), Vol 2, No. 1 (November, 1984)

Carson, Luke. Publisher's site for Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukovsky and Ezra Pound [Great Depression] (Palgrave, 1999)

Conte, Joseph. Professor Joseph Conte's syllabus for English 633: Poetic Texture: The Smooth and the Striated in Postmodern Poetry, Fall 2001

Cook, Albert. "Metrical inventions: Zukofsky and Merwin," in College Literature, Oct 1997

Jones, Peter. Louis Zukofsky in Poetry Nation 5, 1975

Lewis, Leon. An introduction to Louis Zukofsky from the Literary Encyclopedia, 05 January 2005

Scrogins, Mark. A substantial biography of Louis Zukofsky from the Modern American Poetry site (Univ. of Ill.) Originally in Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge, by Mark Scroggins, 1998.

Extended introduction to Louis Zukofsky from the Poetry Foundation.

The Louis Zukofsky centennial at Columbia Sept. 17-19, 2004 featured presentations by some well-known poets and critics. The participants have generously made a number of these papers open access (not separately indexed here yet)

The Modern American Poetry coverage for Louis Zukofsky from Univ. of Ill. has several lengthy articles on "Mantis" by Joseph Conte, John Taggart, Mark Scroggins, Susan Vanderborg, and Michael Davidson.

A description of the Zukofsky manuscripts at the Kansas State Univ. library

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