http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2005/04/transatlantic-zukofsky.html
Mark Scroggins is one of the upper-America's best hands/readers of Zukofsky.
(I like the one book out; and he is interesting on Henry Adams in the
current Z issue of Chicago Review) This page from his relatively new blog is
quite interesting on why Z - in spite of his real influence on and
friendship with B Bunting, influence on Ian Hamilton Finlay, C Tomilson and
(unmentioned) Bob Cobbing (and why not Prynne and Raworth) - has never
penetrated the British poetry reading Establishment. It's interesting in its
brief exploration of how he sees the way "established" British taste in
poetry blocks out certain characteristics of USA poetry, while accepting
others. Match say Thomas Hardy's verse with Z's and you kind of get the
picture. Hardy clearly owns another sensibility (go to New England and
follow the path).
Creeley was/is much liked in England from the sixties on. Creeley's work,
its particular precision and lyricism is also closely linked to his reading
of Z. Why the wedge?
Stephen V
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