The Zukofsky Era

Ruth Jennison is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Uneven Poetics of Radical Parataxis Chapter 1. Zukofsky: The Political Economy of Revolutionary Modernism Chapter 2. G. Oppen, Materialiste: Cinematic Capitalism Part II: The Commodity's Inscape Chapter 3. Zukofsky: The Voice of the Fetish Chapter 4. Niedecker: The Interior Voice Commodified Part III: The Objectivist Reflex Chapter 5. Zukofsky: Counterfetishistic Literacy Appendix Notes Index

The book is an illuminating, insightful, and theoretically rigorous engagement with Objectivist poetics that is sure to shape subsequent discussion. -- Robert L. Zamsky Review of English Studies Jennison embraces a precise critical vocabulary that serves her purpose well... Most importantly, [she] presents an incisive and rigorous reading of Zukovsky's early work, not against his own interpretive choices but informed by them. -- Cosana Eram Journal of American Culture The signal theoretical work of the year is Ruth Jennison's The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde... It seems unlikely that work on both [Zukofsky and Oppen] in the coming years will be able to avoid responding to Jennison's reconfiguration of the critical terrain -- this is a work sure to have a wide influence. American Literature: The Twentieth Century Jennison delivers the most satisfying and intellectually robust explanation we have yet had of Zukofsky, in particular, and Objectivism, in general. No account of modernist poetics should be able to present itself without embarrassment if it avoids Jennison's readings. Along with Moretti and Eagleton, The Zukofsky Era shows that large-scale historical accounts can deliver complex textual readings. More please. -- Stephen Shapiro A Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory