"A""

New Directions, 2011. Very Good. Zukofsky, Louis. ""A"". Ahearn (Introduction), Barry. NY: New Directions, 2011. 826pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Off white wraps with yellow vignette effect. Book condition: Very good. Corners and spine ends rubbed and slightly bumped. Spine foot gently abrased; there is a small crease on the back strip near foot of spine. Rear wrap has some barely noticeable soiling along top edge and spine foot. First edition thus of New Directions' re-release of ""A"", a poem written by the father of the Objectivist poets. Influenced by Pound and including William Carlos Williams, the Objectivist work published by Zukofsky showcased sincerity, attention to detail, and melody through methodical choice of each word. Zukofsky's ""A"" was a lifelong obsession and he nurtured it from 1928-1974. His magnum opus, the synesthetic poem shapeshifts through the forms of classical music, leftist speech, formal sonnetry, and cultural commentary. Mostly ignored in the 1930s, Objectivism and the formal collage of ""A"" would in the 1960s become part of an important reactionary to contrast Beat poetry's rejection of formal poetic discipline..