THE OBJECTIVISTS
- Emily Bilman
- Jun 11, 2018
- 1 min read
The objectivists were an avant-garde movement that started
in the Great Depression in New York when the stock market
collapsed and jobs were as rare as water in the desert. The
founder was Louis Zukofsky who started writing down poems
from what he felt and observed in the poverty-stricken slums
of the city. Other surrealist poets joined in to mark their
rebellion against apartheid even within the different
segments of the American society. The most important
aspect of these poets was their ability to write down
their direct objective perceptions through their direct
experience of the events which today gave rise to the
school of phenomenology in the arts. W.C. Williams,
Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings later joined in along with
Robert Creeley whose projective verse initiated
The Black Mountain movement. The latter poets
wrote about their emotions mixed with their
direct perceptions and are an invaluable part
of emotional input to poetry. E.B.
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