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The term Objectivism was originally coined by William Carlos Williams to mean looking at a poem “with a special eye to its structural aspect, how it has been constructed.”
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The term Objectivism was originally coined by William Carlos Williams to mean looking at a poem “with a special eye to its structural aspect, how it has been constructed.”
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- AuthorCharles Reznikoff was born in the Jewish neighborhood of Brownsville in Brooklyn, New York, to Nathan and Sarah Yetta (Wolvosky) Reznikoff, immigrants from Russia fleeing the pogroms of the 1880s. His father...
- AuthorLorine Niedecker was born in Fort Atkinson, in southern Wisconsin, and lived in the area for most of her life. Her father was a business man who owned property on Blackhawk Island, a peninsula on the Rock ...
- AuthorThe son of German Jewish parents, Carl Rakosi was born in Berlin in 1903, moving soon to Hungary following his parents’ separation in 1904. Immigrating with his father and stepmother to Kenosha, Wisconsin,...
- AuthorGeorge Oppen, a prominent American poet, was one of the chief exponents of Objectivism, a school of poetry that emphasized simplicity and clarity over formal structure and rhyme. Born in 1908 to a wealthy ...
- AuthorThe son of immigrant Russian Jews, Louis Zukofsky was born into the Jewish ghetto of the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1904. He is perhaps best-known for “A”, a monumental poem in 24 parts, and for inventing...
