Louis Zukofsky papers

Finding Aid

Prepared for the WWW by Barbara Bass, June 12, 2002; Last Updated: April 2020

Inclusive Dates: 1961-1964
Extent: .33 cubic foot (1 document case)
Physical Location: 11th floor

Biographical Note: Louis Zukofsky was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1904, to Russian immigrant parents. He was a self-termed objectivist poet: that is, he believed that the poem should call attention to itself on the page. His major influences included Pound, Eliot, and Shakespeare, and he was a devoted Marxist. His anthologies include All: The Collected Poems, 1923-1958 (1965) and A 1-12 (1959). Zukofsky died in 1978.

Scope and Content: This collection contains correspondence between Louis Zukofsky and Will Petersen and Hank Chapin.

Arrangement: The letters are arranged by date.

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Apr. 19, 1961
2. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Apr. 24, 1961
3. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Apr. 25, 1961
4. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: May 2, 1961
5. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: May 15, 1961
6. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: May 15, 1961
7. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: May 22, 1961
8. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: May 31, 1961
9. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: May, 1961
10. Correspondence: Alpheus Walter to Will Petersen: June 1, 1961
11. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: June 10, 1961
12. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: June 26, 1961
13. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: July 14, 1961
14. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: July 27, 1961
15. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Aug. 25, 1961
16. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Sept. 5, 1961
17. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to WIll Petersen: Sept. 12, 1961
18. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Sept. 13, 1961
19. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Sept. 26, 1961
20. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Oct. 2, 1961
21. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Oct. 5, 1961
22. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Oct. 11, 1961
23. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Oct. 26, 1961
24. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Oct. 27, 1961
25. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Oct. 29, 1961
26. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Nov. 1, 1961
27. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Nov. 20, 1961
28. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Nov. 24, 1961
29. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Dec. 8, 1961
30. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Dec. 26, 1961
31. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Feb. 10, 1962
32. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: July 14, 1962
33. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: July 19, 1962
34. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: July 27, 1962
35. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: Aug. 4, 1962
36. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Aug. 4, 1962
37. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: Aug. 15, 1962
38. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Aug. 22, 1962
39. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: Aug. 29, 1962
40. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Sept. 1, 1962
41. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Oct. 13, 1962
42. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: Oct. 22, 1962
43. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Oct. 26, 1962
44. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Nov. 6, 1962
45. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: Feb. 20, 1963
46. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: Feb. 28, 1963
47. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: May 15, 1963
48. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: May 29, 1963
49. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: June 29, 1963
50. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Aug. 1, 1963
51. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: Oct. 8, 1963
52. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: Nov. 30, 1963
53. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Dec. 30, 1963
54. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Will Petersen: Jan. 13, 1964
55. Correspondence: Louis Zukofsky to Hank Chapin: Feb. 7, 1964