Objectivism

Loose association of US poets such as Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976), and George Oppen (1908-1984), whose major works were all lifelong open-ended enterprises, constantly updated. Poetry was seen by them as a process by which the poetic form begins with a particular object and then moves on by improvisation through verbal associations inspired by the original object.