Objectivist Poets

I have been reading the objectivist poets. In particular Zukofsky, Oppen and Rakosi.

Zukofsky has a music but is so hard to parse. Then I read the following in Jacket magazine, in an article by Peter Quartermain
"Half a year later he would exclaim, in another letter to Corman (25 August 1960 [Origin 63]), that as for “content, . . . the sooner I can get that out of the way & buried in the music of the whole thing the better.”[13] The uncertainty – of “Belly Locks Shnooks Oakie,” “The desire of towing,” “the wriggly Wrigley boys” – is part of the poem and essential. Zukofsky withholds reference and meaning because he want you to think through the uncertainty, by means of it. The uncertainty is itself the material and the ground of thought, for uncertainty is, when all’s said and done, how we go through the world in which those particulars we call objects are, finally, inscrutable. The poem is a way of being in the world without claiming power over it."

This has given me new insight. I read with new eyes.