^* In “A” we have presentiments of language as heap; something like the Buddhist concept of skandhas, clusters of sense aggregates and their compound emanations. (The skandhas are : the aggregate of matter, the aggregate of feeling or sensation, the aggregate of perception, the aggregate of mental formulations, the aggregate of consciousness.) Zukofsky is able to practice a very tight, even elliptical, syntactic condensation because he moves over an intuitively familiar array, the poem’s own “heaps” or aggregates.