Zukofsky on death and the literary work (?)

Zukofsky appears to have thought that a poet 'lives' on through the atoms and DNA of his corpus; that  “the body is what counts, at least in this life....  Otherwise the body becomes a mysterious carriage, declaiming the defects of the mind, as Ezra would smile....”  My (probably [mis-/Spinozist] hearing of Zukofsky's comments on Pound's recent death, included in his introduction to Bard College Reading, Annandale Hudson, NY, November 9, 1972, available through http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound)