Poetics of the Limit

This book situates Louis Zukofsky''s poetics (and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. The book makes a strong case for perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix of modernism. Viewing Zukofsy''s poetry through the lens of the theoretical work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, Woods argues ...