MODERN DOCUMENT
The jollowing remarks by Louis Zukojsky to Ezra Pound, which
appear in a volume oj correspondence between them, just published by New
Directions, are interesting as observations oj
Partisan Review
by the two
poets·, as well as reflections oj the period in which they were made.
Dec.
7/37
41 W. 11 st N.Y.C.
Dear E: Murkin contract for your 5th Decade , O.K., will be glad to
get copy in time.
I thought you didn't like Trotsky. So why recommend me Par–
tisan Rev[iew].? In any case, I doubt if they'll put forth more than
one issue. The day of the little magazine is definitely
over.
Nobuddy
sees even a commercial venture like
Globe
anywhere around-not
even in Brentano's which has damn near everything- not to men–
tion
Partisan.
Seein' as you might appreciate a fact,
if
you can see
it - were here to see it - the battle as far as the mag. field is con–
cerned is between Universities old style
&
the newly "enlightened"
factions in 'em. Old Nick
&
his ilk
&
the trustees will support
Harpers etc,
&
the younger professors concerned with economick etc
will make a go of
Science
&
Society, Marxist Quarterly, New Masses .
Lost
on the fringe of things the younger litterati who don't know nuthin
&
have less guts
&
less conviction will hang on to corrup the latter
(New Masses or Daily Worker etc) or break away if they can't make
pin money
&
form cliques etc which will come to naught anyway... .
What I need,
&
I wdn't mention it except that you persist in
recommending me gristle, not even a bone, like Partisan Rev. is a
Reputable Bourgeois Publisher.
. .
z.
Editor's Note: Reprinted from
PoundlZukofsky.
Copyright
CO
1987 by Paul
Zukofsky; used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp .
*Zukofsky seems to be responding to a Pound letter that has not survived.
