Zukofsky’s great love for music as an art form to experiment with shows up as interweaving themes in his work. Consider this passage from the first chapter of his great poem “A”: “Music leaving no traces,
Not dying, and leaving no traces.” (“A” 6)
Zukofsky aims to explain the process of a scientific recording, through the processes of objective statements made in his work. On the other side of the coin lies creation, the ability to produce something tangible from the mere idea of it. On the other side lies the process of recording, the ability to state objectively a reality that the observer notices in the around them. Zukofsky’s “A” exercises both the processes of creation and recording in his journey.
“I: Ask Faust, the reason we're not further along -
Go-ethe, alias MacFadden –“ …show more content…
A similar notion would be that of the perception and recording of other senses available to the human mind; the auditory, the olfactory and the tactile. Zukofsky states in an interview with L. S. Dembo that “some senses are more important to some people than to others”. (“Louis Zukofsky” 205) Essentially, the concept of subjectivity in perception appears in a minor note in this theory, but what finds itself at centre stage is the (controversial) recording of a singular reality that is possible with the tools available at hand. Zukofsky admires that to some professions, certain senses are most vital.
“Some senses are more important to some people than to others. To the cook, I suppose taste and smell are the most important; to the musician, hearing (the ear); to the poet, all the senses, but chiefly, sight (the eye)-Pound said we live with certain landscapes. And because of the eye's movement, something is imparted to or through the physical movement of your body and you express yourself as a voice.” (“Louis Zukofsky: Objectivist Poetics and the Quest for Form”
Not dying, and leaving no traces.” (“A” 6)
Zukofsky aims to explain the process of a scientific recording, through the processes of objective statements made in his work. On the other side of the coin lies creation, the ability to produce something tangible from the mere idea of it. On the other side lies the process of recording, the ability to state objectively a reality that the observer notices in the around them. Zukofsky’s “A” exercises both the processes of creation and recording in his journey.
“I: Ask Faust, the reason we're not further along -
Go-ethe, alias MacFadden –“ …show more content…
A similar notion would be that of the perception and recording of other senses available to the human mind; the auditory, the olfactory and the tactile. Zukofsky states in an interview with L. S. Dembo that “some senses are more important to some people than to others”. (“Louis Zukofsky” 205) Essentially, the concept of subjectivity in perception appears in a minor note in this theory, but what finds itself at centre stage is the (controversial) recording of a singular reality that is possible with the tools available at hand. Zukofsky admires that to some professions, certain senses are most vital.
“Some senses are more important to some people than to others. To the cook, I suppose taste and smell are the most important; to the musician, hearing (the ear); to the poet, all the senses, but chiefly, sight (the eye)-Pound said we live with certain landscapes. And because of the eye's movement, something is imparted to or through the physical movement of your body and you express yourself as a voice.” (“Louis Zukofsky: Objectivist Poetics and the Quest for Form”