Having completed my reading of Louis Zukofsky’s “A” I can now offer a few notes on my experience. Of course, this is such a voluminous work full of subtleties, rich with linguistic verities, and containing a magnitude of philosophical and poetic...

It’s not the best reading in the world, but after a couple of weeks of being under the weather I thought this poem by Wallace Stevens might be apropos. Written in 1915, “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” is still one of the great poetic mysteries of the...

After reading 12-1/2 chapters of “A” by Louis Zukofsky, I’m convinced Zukofsky must have been a lunatic. Only such a person could have spent an entire life on a work such as “A”. I’m sure “A” has some literary value, but in large part it is a mad...

My wife is a great woman. When I ask for chicken broth she brings it to me. And she does other things too. But I needed chicken broth last night and she made me the best cup of broth I’ve ever had. Thanks, wife. I’ve been fighting a cold now for three...

Yesterday I announced I was reading Louis Zukofsky’s “A”. The poem is decidedly written in the mode of free verse – most parts of it anyway. But imagine my surprise when, at the end of Part 8, I’m reading along and happen upon a Ballade. Right in the...