Tuesday, April 22, 2008

News at Eleven: No trade publisher wanted to bring

out his books. (Little wonder: Two months after publication, Barely and widely had sold only 26 copies.) After all, [Louis] Zukofsky was in many ways the last of the real modernists, ambitious on a grand scale, producing appealing but still demanding short work, while giving his greatest efforts to a mammoth 24-section epic titled "A."

from The Washington Post: A biography of a poet whose work demanded attention.

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