L.S. Dembo, in “Louis Zukofsky: Objectivist Poetics and the Quest for Form,” provides an explanation of the objectivists during the modernist period and how their poetic philosophies was also a “quest for form.” Dembo opens with a brief summary on the Objectivists poets, focusing mainly on Louis Zukofsky and his place within, or at the […]
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Zukofsky and Trostsky: The Poetics of Uneven Development
Ruth Jennison’s article “Combining Uneven Developments: Louis Zukofsky and the Political Economy of Revolutionary Modernism” attempts, in her words, to “explore the ways in which Objectivist poetry elaborates in aesthetic terms the economic and social concepts of twentieth- and twenty-first century political economists of uneven development” (146). Her primary argument is that, through paratactic aesthetic […]