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An indispensable collection of an avant-garde poet's literary essays.

Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays, published first in 1967 and then in an expanded edition in 1981, was a definitive set of critical statements by Louis Zukofsky, one of the most important poets of the 20th century. These central expositions of Zukofsky's own poetics, and enduring examinations of the art of poetry, range over the entire length of Zukofsky's career and include sensitive and prescient readings of Henry Adams, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, and others.

Prepositions + brings this essential collection back into print, and adds generous selections of Zukofsky's uncollected prose, most notably the crucial 5 Statements for Poetry. Published in a small edition in 1958 and out of print ever since, 5 Statements gathers the essays that Zukofsky felt best presented his own poetics. Among them are the three essays, in their original and expansive forms, that crystallized the "Objectivist" movement of the early 1930s. Prepositions + also includes an extended in-depth interview in which Zukofsky discusses his poetry and poetics.

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Foreword   Charles Bernstein	
Prefatory Note	
For	
    Poetry/For My Son When He Can Read	
    An Objective	
    A Statement for Poetry	
    For Wallace Stevens	
With	
    Golgonzoona?	
    William Carlos Williams	
    The Effacement of Philosophy	
    Modern Times	
    Lewis Carroll	
    Ezra Pound	
    Him	
    Henry Adams/A Criticism in Autobiography	
    With Little/For Careenagers	
About	
    Influence	
    Poetic Values	
    American Poetry 1920-1930	
    Dometer Guczul	
    Basic	
    Work/Sundown	
    Bottom, a weaver	
    Found Objects (1962-1926)	
    About the Gas Age	
    Index to Definitions	
Louis Zukofsky Additional Prose	
    Introduction- Mark Scroggins	
Statements for Poetry (1958)	
    Foreword	
    Program: "Objectivists" 1931 (from Poetry, February 1931)	
    "Recencies" in Poetry (a talk, printed in An "Objectivists" Anthology 1932)	
    Poetry/For My Son When He Can Read (1946)	
    A Statement for Poetry (1950)	
    Louis and Celia Zukofsky: Translating Catullus (1962)	
    Foreword to "A" 1-12 (1967)	
    Interview [with L.S. Dembo] (1968)