On September 26, 1930, Pound told Zukofsky he informed Zukofsky that he had recently gotten around to reading two of Zukofsky’s prose essays, including his piece on Reznikoff and told him “I don’t think either essay any use for Yourup = I think they both (after emendation) ought to appear in Poetry. at least develop the critical section.” 1 University of Chicago Special Collections. Criterion and H & Horn both taking on Zukofsky. In December 1929, Zukofsky sent Pound an article he had written on the poetry of Charles Reznikoff (which would later become the “Sincerity and Objectification” essay included in the “Objectivists” issue of Poetry), few months later, Pound began mentioning Zukofsky’s promise as a critic to Harriet Monroe of Poetry, telling her in March 1930: “I think you miss things. Pound’s favorable response to Zukofsky’s poem and, later to his critical writing (it helped that one of Zukofsky’s essays was an appreciative and perceptive review of Pound’s Cantos), initiated a lively correspondence which intensified and broadened over the next several years as Zukofsky formed his own developing relationships with others in Pound’s circle of American contacts. The seeds of what would be published in February 1931 as the “OBJECTIVISTS” 1931 issue of Poetry magazine had their roots in Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound’s correspondence, which began in the summer of 1927 when Zukofsky sent Pound his “Poem Beginning ‘The'” for consideration in Pound’s newly established magazine The Exile. “Objectivist” Publications The “OBJECTIVISTS” 1931 issue of Poetry magazine While each of the authors featured on this site enjoyed their own rich individual publication history, explored in greater depth on separate pages for each individual writer, this page will detail several of the collaborative publication efforts that various of these “Objectivist” writers participated in during their first period of activity (1928-1935), with a special emphasis placed on the several little magazines, anthologies and publishing cooperatives the “Objectivists” appeared in, edited, published, and financed. Apart from Williams, who published poetry and prose more or less continuously from 1909 until his death in 1963, the remainder of the “Objectivists” had two distinct periods of intense publication activity (from 1928-1935, and from 1959-1978) interrupted by almost 25 years during which some members of the group wrote almost nothing and those who continued writing found it very difficult to have their work published. In fact, William Carlos Williams, the oldest member of the group by more than a decade, published his first collection, Poems, in 1909, just a year after George Oppen, the youngest core “Objectivist,” was born. While the first explicitly “Objectivist” poems as such appeared in the February 1931 issue of Poetry, most of the poets included in that group had already been publishing their writing for some time, usually in some of the era’s many little magazines. #Ycal mss 6 mina loy seriesThrough a series of little magazines, cooperative book publishing ventures, and other schemes, these writers spent considerable time and effort reading, publishing, and reviewing one another’s work, with several members of the group sending each other their new publications for the rest of their lives, in some cases more than fifty years after their initial association. In addition to the cluster of friendships among the various “Objectivist” writers initiated in the mid- to late-1920s and cemented by regular correspondence, the core “Objectivists” were also connected by their longstanding mutual interest in one another’s poetry.
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