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  Charles Reznikoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Reznikoff (August 31, 1894 - January 22, 1976) was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined.
Reznikoff was born in a Jewish ghetto in Brooklyn, New York of Russian parents.
Reznikoff had had some success with his 1930 novel By the Waters of Manhattan, and the new press published three titles by him, two that gathered together previously self-published work and the third a first installment of a long work called Testimony.
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 Encyclopedia: Charles Reznikoff
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976) was born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian immigrants.
The short poems...reveal Reznikoff in the fullest command of his art – brief narrative vignettes, mostly of urban and proletarian lives, in which the Objectivist procedures of restraint, seeming passivity, and precise specification are transferred from nature to the sphere of human actions...
This landmark volume of correspondence by the Objectivist poet Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) sheds light not only on the difficulties of an artist trying to keep afloat in the modern, materialistic society of the heady 20's and 30's, but also on the relation of poetry to a wider culture during this eventful and turbulent period.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Charles Reznikoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In Reznikoff’s case, this means a poetics of witness, a respect for the reader’s moral imagination, and an abiding interest in the decaying, lonely environment of the city and its resilient inhabitants:
one of the carles – a Charles, a churl;
Reznikoff’s poetry is haunted by the ghost of this grandfather, a poet whose entire body of work was burned by his illiterate widow, who feared that the writing might contain subversive elements that might prove dangerous to her family.
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 Charles Reznikoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Charles Reznikoff (August 31, 1894 - January 22, 1976) wasthe poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined.
Reznikoff was born in a Jewish ghetto in Brooklyn, NewYork of Russian parents.
Reznikoff lived and wrote in relative obscurity and poverty for most of his life, with his work being either self-published orissued by small independent presses.
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 Charles Reznikoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
From his teens, Reznikoff had been writing poetry, much of it influenced by the Imagist s, and publishing it himself using handset printing plates.
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 Biographical Essay on Charles Reznikoff
Reznikoff's study of the law of the United States seems to have become for him a substitute for the Jewish patrimony of knowledge of the sacred law which he had rejected when he was too young.
Reznikoffs work is remarkable and original in American literature" and attributed the impression it made on him to its prose style, which he described as "of the greatest delicacy and distinction." Despite such admiration, the novel failed to make any signal impact on the public.
Reznikoff was too self-critical to be very productive as a poet, and what he did produce too often succumbed to his passion for revision.
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/reznikoff/bio.htm   (5039 words)

  
 MELUS: "Palestine was a halting place, one of many": Diasporism in the Poetry of Charles Reznikoff - Critical Essay
In this study of selected works of Charles Reznikoff, one of the first identifiable Jewish American poets of the twentieth century, I hope to illuminate important dimensions of the evolving interplay between the modernist identity of the secular artist and a notion of diaspora dating to antiquity.
Reznikoff's poetry responds to Jewish traditions that strain against coercive narratives of nationalism, revealing instead unexpected permutations of Jewish creativity, which are invariably located in eminently precarious Diasporic settings.
The child of East European immigrants who had fled the 1881 pogroms, Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) was born in Brooklyn, spent his youth in Brownsville on the Lower East Side, eventually studied both journalism and the law, and served in the U.S. Army.
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 Oppen on Reznikiff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There was the issue of free verse to begin with, and of course, Reznikoff couldn't make use of the Whitmanesque breath of the New Eng — of the Mid-West poets, and he didn't have the authorization of the New England scenes.
George Oppen's introduction to Charles Reznikoff on March 21st, 1974 at San Francisco State University was transcribed by Kyle Schlesinger.
The recording of Reznikoff's reading was recorded by the American Poetry Archive at the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University located at 1600 Holloway Avenue in San Francisco California.
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 Objectivist poets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The basic tenets of Objectivist poetics as defined by Louis Zukofsky were to treat the poem as an object, and to emphasise sincerity, intelligence, and the poet's ability to look clearly at the world.
The core group consisted of the Americans Zukofsky, Williams, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Carl Rakosi, and the British poet Basil Bunting.
Another of Zukofsky's literary mentors at this period was Charles Reznikoff, a New York poet whose early work was also influenced by Imagism.
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The oldest of the Objectivist poets, Reznikoff was born in 1894 in Brooklyn to Russian-Jewish parents.
Although his poetry was relatively neglected until the 1960s, Reznikoff served as a model for the other Objectivists.
“That line of Reznikoff's and the poem of which it is a part, and line upon line of his perfect poems have been with me for the forty-eight years since I first came upon them.
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 Objectivist Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Charles Reznikoff standing on a bus in Brooklyn.
Reznikoff publishes Rhythms II, which includes "The Idiot": "With green stagnant eyes, / arms and legs / loose ends of string in a wind, / keep smiling at your father" (Cooney 22).
He dedicates the poetry collection "to the memory of Sarah Yetta Reznikoff, my mother, who was born in what was then the city of Elizavetgrad, Russia, the daughter of Ezekiel and Hanna Wolvovsky, and who died in New York City, sixty-eight years of age, February 12, 1937" (Cooney, 1937-1975 16).
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 Charles Reznikoff - Black Sparrow Books
Reznikoff’s poems [are] solely concerned with lucidity of vision.
One of Reznikoff's main correspondents is the teacher, writer and Zionist activist Marie Syrkin, who married Reznikoff in 1930.
Another recipient of Charles' letters was his friend Albert Lewin, the film producer, writer, and director.
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 Commentary Magazine - Testimony, by Charles Reznikoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
...Born in Brooklyn in 1894, Reznikoff has achieved a quiet mastery of the American idiom, which is all the more impressive to the sympathetically attuned ear because of its avoidance of the kind of sensationalism, smut, and slang which are designed to exhibit an easy familiarity with the national life...
...Reznikoff has retained a quality of "innocence," which to me seems very precious and is the source of the purity of his best work...
...An objection may be made against Reznikoff's method of deriving his picture of life from cases that had to be settled in the courts...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V41I1P78-1.htm   (2170 words)

  
 Reznikoff, Charles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Charles Reznikoff was born in Brooklyn in 1894.
Reznikoff had little interest in money and worked only enough to support himself and his writing, much of which he initially published himself.
Reznikoff was adamant about having his work in print but less concern than most authors about whether his work would be read.
www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/reznikoff.html   (1475 words)

  
 Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 96, P-T
Reznikoff was so little-known during his lifetime that he published much of his work himself, although he has come to be considered one of the leading poets of the school defined by William Carlos Williams and epitomized by Louis Zukofsky, among others.
A selection of short prose pieces inspired by the testimonies Reznikoff, who was a lawyer, found in a number of volumes of law reports.
Contains "Early History of a Seamstress" by Sarah Reznikoff and "Early History of a Sewing-Machine Operator" by Nathan Reznikoff, each previously published and at least partially attributed to Charles Reznikoff.
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 PAL: Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
Dembo, L. "Objectivist or Jew: Charles Reznikoff in the Diaspora." 187-97.
Wagner, Linda W. "Charles Reznikoff, Master of the Miniature." 225-32.
"Notions of Diaspora in the Poetics of Marie Syrkin and Charles Reznikoff." Yiddish 10.4 (1997): 69-82.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap7/reznikoff.html   (373 words)

  
 Reznikoff's Testimony
Charles Reznikoff spent his childhood in apartments piled with his parents’ sewing and populated by refugees.
Reznikoff’s conscience was devoted to the one aim of accurately representing the particular emotions he had discovered.
Reznikoff’s humility was real enough, and shows itself in his preference for the term “revision” in place of “creation.” The final step in the process, though, “revision by contemplation,” quietly reasserts the poet’s status, for it signifies nothing else than the simple application of genius.
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 Commentary Magazine - The Jews of Charleston, by Charles Reznikoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
...Reznikoff makes it sufficiently clear that so far as religion is concerned, it has followed in Charleston the inexorable American pattern: reform, conservative reaction, and no apostasy to speak of...
...Charles Reznikoff's book, while it provides the historical background for such an examination, skirts the examination itself...
...Reznikoff, of the order of "I was raised with a deep pride in my origin," are not enough...
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 Charles Reznikoff - Wikipedia
Er wurde Rechtsanwalt, gab diesen Beruf aber wenige Wochen später auch wieder auf.
Reznikoff druckte und verlegte seine Werke selbst, kümmerte sich aber nicht um deren Verbreitung.
Literatur von und über Charles Reznikoff im Katalog der DDB
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 Charles Reznikoff - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Poems, 1918-1975: The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff
A Menorah for Athena : Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (Phoenix Poets (Paperback))
Depression Glass: Documentary Photography and the Medium of the Camera-Eye in Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
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 Charles Reznikoff - Paul Auster entdeckt Charles Reznikoff - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
Er hält es für eine nicht unbedingt erfolgreiche Werbestrategie des Verlages, den in Amerika zwar anerkannten, aber hierzulande völlig unbekannten Lyriker Reznikoff mithilfe eines Erfolgsautors zu präsentieren, dessen literarische Qualitäten in den Augen des Rezensenten in den letzten Jahren arg zu wünschen übrig ließen.
Immerhin habe Auster, merkt Frick an, Reznikoff noch persönlich kennen gelernt.
Reznikoff, Kind russischer Emigranten, lebte von 1894 bis 1976, referiert Frick, seine frühen Gedichte wiesen noch den Einfluss des Imagismus auf, seine Prosa verweise eher auf Joyce.
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 A Menorah for Athena -- Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry -- Stephen Fredman Susan Hahn ...
Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry
The first major Jewish poet in America and a key figure of the Objectivist movement, Charles Reznikoff was a crucial link between the generation of Pound and Williams, and the more radical modernists who followed in their wake.
According to Fredman, then, the indelible images in Reznikoff's poetry open a window onto the vexed but ultimately successful entry of Jewish immigrants and their children into the mainstream of American intellectual life.
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 Charles Reznikoff's The Manner Music: A Book of Not's - Associated Content
I have recently gone through Charles Reznikoff's lifetime accumulation of manuscripts, and was thunderstruck to find a carefully typed, completed novel, which he apparently never mentioned to anyone, or submitted for publication.
I believe this novel was written in response to a letter William Carlos Williams wrote Charles in the late 1940's, at a time when Charles' career was at a low ebb, urging him to continue writing at any cost, and if possible to write a novel…
Reznikoff resists the plotting points of overdrive, resists the overdramatic manipulations of coincidental materializations or character in emotional penury or even the regurgitated clichés of the struggle of friendship, commitment, loyalty.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/14703/charles_reznikoffs_the_manner_music.html   (413 words)

  
 Buchkritik.at - Charles Reznikoff / Paul Auster (Hrsg.) - Paul Auster entdeckt Charles Reznikoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Doch auch in den Straßen Brooklyns erfuhr Reznikoff in seiner Kindheit und Jugend den Antisemitismus seiner Umgebung.
Charles Reznikoff ging gerne spazieren, liebte es zu lesen, zu schreiben.
Charles Reznikoff ist ein Poet des Auges, das Gesehene wird auf seinen Kern reduziert, und das Subjekt des Sehenden verschwindet, was bleibt ist der reine Gegenstand.
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 Amazon.com: My Way : Speeches and Poems: Books: Charles Bernstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Charles Bernstein utilized lyrics first not acoustics first; then you of the 21st century oblivious to the 1990s and beyond can perceive the acoustic guitar as synonymous with lyrics which is not the case with Ch.
By this, I mean that the prior senses of voice and forms of genre, not to mention the stabilities of "poetic diction," are taken into stranger post-ego areas of language risk, secular conversion, and fun.
Sinatra did it "my way," and Charles Bernstein (like a zanier Bob Dylan watching a Marx Brothers movie while reading Deleuze and composing the Greenwich Village Joe Hill Blues on a used mouth harp) did it his, and "official verse culture" in the United States will never be the smug same old poesy again.
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