Abstract
Louis Zukofsky called his twenty-four-section long poem poem of a life / ?and a time.1 A, a forty-five year project of constructivist genres and formalist poetic _mastery, is crown among works both singular and unique?including a midrashic gloss on Shakespeare that is at once literary criticism, philosophy, and poetics; many shorter poems of density, compression, and musicality (398); projects composing procedural/formalist works of experimental panache; bravura inventions of an abstracting, homophonic translation strategy; some rather mannered fiction; and essays both hermetic and importantly generative. A slightly altered phrase from this little note to becomes suggestive title of Mark Scroggins's expert biography The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky, which precisely emphasizes work over a somewhat uneventful though intensely literary life, thus creating the life story of Zukofsky's writings (xi).
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