Xavier Kalck is Professor of North American Literature at the University of Lille, France.

An irreplaceable advance in our understanding of the poets who have been called Objectivist. Stressing how these writers differed in their interests and dispositions, Kalck shows, incisively, how each resists reconciliations that later interpreters have sought in their work. In Kalck’s moving, persuasive telling, these are poets of unresolved tensions—between sacred and secular, erudition and intimacy, economy and scope, place and dislocation, clarity and music.

• Introduction 1: Charles Reznikoff’s Human Language 2: Forgetting Louis Zukofsky3: The Scales of Carl Rakosi4: Lorine Niedecker, Anchored and Abstract5: George Oppen at the Lighthouse Conclusion: Unreconciled Particulars BibliographyIndex

Xavier Kalck is Professor of North American Literature at the University of Lille, France.

An irreplaceable advance in our understanding of the poets who have been called Objectivist. Stressing how these writers differed in their interests and dispositions, Kalck shows, incisively, how each resists reconciliations that later interpreters have sought in their work. In Kalck’s moving, persuasive telling, these are poets of unresolved tensions—between sacred and secular, erudition and intimacy, economy and scope, place and dislocation, clarity and music.

• Introduction 1: Charles Reznikoff’s Human Language 2: Forgetting Louis Zukofsky3: The Scales of Carl Rakosi4: Lorine Niedecker, Anchored and Abstract5: George Oppen at the Lighthouse Conclusion: Unreconciled Particulars BibliographyIndex

Xavier Kalck is Professor of North American Literature at the University of Lille, France.

An irreplaceable advance in our understanding of the poets who have been called Objectivist. Stressing how these writers differed in their interests and dispositions, Kalck shows, incisively, how each resists reconciliations that later interpreters have sought in their work. In Kalck’s moving, persuasive telling, these are poets of unresolved tensions—between sacred and secular, erudition and intimacy, economy and scope, place and dislocation, clarity and music.

• Introduction 1: Charles Reznikoff’s Human Language 2: Forgetting Louis Zukofsky3: The Scales of Carl Rakosi4: Lorine Niedecker, Anchored and Abstract5: George Oppen at the Lighthouse Conclusion: Unreconciled Particulars BibliographyIndex