Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry

A gathering of all of Zukofsky’s poems outside of “A” — poems that are “absolute clarification, crystal cabinets full of air and angels” (Kenneth Rexroth).

Anew, sun, to fire summer

leaves move toward the air

from the stems of the branches

fire summer fire summer

—from Anew

Here is the complete music-filled arc of Louis Zukofsky’s shorter verse collected in one volume: lyrical love poems written to his wife Celia and son Paul; the groundbreaking “Poem Beginning ‘The,’ ” “which sends up ‘The...