Charles Reznikoff
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976) was born in Brooklyn, New York. One of the Objectivists of the thirties, he authored several books of poetry, novels and a volume of verse plays.
Testimony: The United States 1885-1890 is a culmination of the Objectivist movement in poetry and tremendously impressive. As I kept reading, the feeling grew on me that an American classic was in the making.
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976) was born in Brooklyn, New York. One of the Objectivists of the thirties, he authored several books of poetry, novels and a volume of verse plays.
Testimony: The United States 1885-1890 is a culmination of the Objectivist movement in poetry and tremendously impressive. As I kept reading, the feeling grew on me that an American classic was in the making.
Reznikoff’s poems project an attitude which has uncanny significance for us today. Even those that are now 20 or 30 years old are peculiarly contemporary, being solely concerned with lucidity of vision. Naked of ornament, clean of illusion, they show us ’the iron scythe in the grass that stops for no flower.'