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Bunting, Basil., Williams, William Carlos., Monroe, Harriet (ed.)., Zukofsky, Louis (ed.), etc.
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse vol. XXXVII (37) no. V (5): "Objectivists" 1931.
Publisher: Chicago;
Date of Publication: 1931
Stock Code: 14318
Octavo periodical, pp., [2], 237-296, [2] of publisher’s ads at end. Original publisher’s buff paper wraps, titled with the iconic Pegasus printed to upper wrapper, acknowledgements to lower wrapper. Nicks to extremities of wraps. Some tidy underlining in ink to a few pages. A well preserved copy of a fragile publication. The founding document of the Objectivist movement. The term ‘Objectivist’ came to be associated with the poets Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, George Reznikoff, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and Basil Bunting, because Harriet Monroe, editor of this volume, insisted that Zukofsky give a name to the grouping of poets within. As Zukofsky recalled in ‘Prepositions’ “She insisted; so, I said, alright, if I can define it in an essay, and I used two words, sincerity and objectification”. This volume includes Zukofsky’s ‘Program: “Objectivists,” 1931’, ‘Sincerity and Objectification’, and ‘”A” (Seventh Movement)’, as well as Williams’ ‘The Botticellian Trees’, and Bunting’s ‘The Word’. £350.00