Charles Reznikoff was one of Allen’s favorite poets.
We have featured him many times on The Allen Ginsberg Project
See here, here, here, here – here, here and here
Charles Reznikoff on the extraordinary and invaluable PennSound
Paul Auster on Charles Reznikoff – “The Decisive Moment” (from The Art of Hunger)
Charles Bernstein on Charles Reznikoff here, here – and here
This past June in Paris at Maison de la Poesie an Anglo-French celebration with Dara Barnat, Norman Finkelstein, Stephen Fredman, Andrea Inglese, Jena Osman, Ariel Reznikoff, Sarug Sarano, Carlos Soto Roman, Mark Scroggins & Frank Smith
As Bernstein writes – (on the occasion of the re-publication of the “definitive edition” of his poems, back in 2005) – “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff is necessary reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American poetry. Reznikoff’s astonishingly engaging and quietly powerful work has been steadily gaining a passionate following.”
That following continued – and is continuing. Read his work.