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Article: Finding His Voice
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- Tikkun
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- May 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Institute of Labor and Mental Health May/Jun 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Finding His Voice LOUIS ZUKOFSKY: SELECTED POEMS edited by Charles Bernstein. The Library of America, 2006 Review by Bob Perelman
LOUIS ZUKOFSKY WAS ONE of the most accomplished American modernist poets, but a quarter century after his death it's still not an ironclad certainty that he won't be confused with a very different kind of American poetCharles Bukowski- or that his name won't be misspelled "Zukovsky" in anthologies or critical articles. So it's a sign of poetic justice that the canonicallyminded Library of America has published Zukofsky 's Selected Poems in an attractive little hardback of 175 pages. Contemporary poet Charles Bernstein uses these pages skillfully to present a ...