{"product_id":"9781593761585","title":"Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poem of a Life\u003c\/i\u003e is the first critical biography of Louis Zukofsky, a fascinating and crucially important American modernist poet. It details the curve of his career, from the early \u003ci\u003eWaste Land\u003c\/i\u003e-parody “Poem beginning 'The'” (1926) to the dense and tantalizing beauties of his last poems, \u003ci\u003e80 Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e(1978), paying special attention to the monumental, complex, and formally various epic poem \u003ci\u003e“A”\u003c\/i\u003e, on which Zukofsky labored for almost fifty years, and which he called “a poem of a life.”\u003cbr\u003e Zukofsky was a protégé of Ezra Pound's, an artistic collaborator and close friend of William Carlos Williams's, and the leader of a whole school of 1930s avant-garde poets, the Objectivists. Later in life he was close friends with such younger writers as Robert Creeley, Paul Metcalf, Robert Duncan, Jonathan Williams, and Guy Davenport. His work spans the divide from modernism to postmodernism, and his later writings have proved an inspiration to whole new generations of innovative poets. Zukofsky's poetry is oblique, condensed, and as fantastically detailed as the late writings of James Joyce, yet it bears at every point the marks of the poet's life and times.","brand":"Counterpoint Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035402387696,"sku":"9781593761585","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593761585_p0.jpg?v=1763812636","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593761585","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}