Louis Zukofsky

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Biography

Louis Zukofsky was an American poet. He was the primary instigator and theorist of the so-called "Objectivist" poets, a short lived collective of poets who after several decades of obscurity would reemerge around 1960 and become a significant influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.

"Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition."

Louis Zukofsky

"It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own."

Louis Zukofsky