Purchase
“One of the best book bargains to come along in quite a while, Williams is a mine loaded with precious ore. . . . A wonderful celebration. ”
—American Poetry
“This volume is both finely commemorative and purposively analytical.”
—Year’s Work in English Studies
Contributions by Alien Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Hayden Carruth, Denise Levertov, Cid Corman, Philip Booth, William Eric Williams, Roy Miki, Marjorie Perloff, Hugh Witemeyer, Ron Loewinsohn, Gilbert Sorrentino, Neil Baldwin, Norman Finkelstein, Jonathan Mayhew, Marilyn Kallet, Rod Townley, Kerry Driscoll, and others. Annotated bibliography of works about Williams, 1974-1982.
Contents
Dova Sta Memora
Allen Ginsberg, “Williams in a World of Objects”
Robert Creeley, “A Visit to an Idol”
Philip Booth, “William Carlos Williams – An Open Thanksgiving”
Hayden Carruth, “The Agony of Dr. Paterson”
Ralph Gustafson, “Meeting the Great Man”
The Man
William Eric Williams, “Life with Father”
Mary Barnard, “William Carlos Williams and the Poetry Archive at Buffalo”
Edith Heal Berrien, “Memory is a Sort of Renewal”
John G. Dollar, “William Carlos Williams and the Polytopic Club”
Roberta Chester, “On Thinking About an Interview with William Carlos Williams on the Subject of the Aesthetic Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens”
Roy Miki, “Driving and Writing”
Richard C. Zbornik, “On Stealing Paterson I and Other Poems for William Carlos Williams”
The Poet I
Ezra Pound, “The Tempers”
Denise Levertov, “The Ideas in the Things”
Cid Corman, “Spring & All”
Marjorie Perloff, “‘To Give a Design’: Williams and the Visualization of Poetry”
Diana Collecott Surman, “Towards the Crystal: Art and Science in Williams’s Poetic”
Hugh Witemyer and E. P. Walkiewicz, “Desert Music: Carlos Williams in the Great Southwest”
Norman M. Finkelstein, “Beauty, Truth and The Wanderer”
The Poet II
Robert G. Basil, “Imagination and Despair in Williams”
Christopher Collins, “The Moving Eye in Williams’s Earlier Poetry”
Jonathan Mayhew, “William Carlos Williams and the Free Verse Line”
Anne Janowitz, “Paterson: An American Contraption”
Marilyn Kallet, “‘Conversation as Design’ in ‘Asphodel, That Greeny Flower’”
Rod Townley, “Bidding for Fame at 50: Williams’s Collected Poems 1921-1931”
The Prose Writer
Ezra Pound, “Dr Williams’s Position”
Ron Loewinsohn, “The Sourness of Sour Grapes: Williams and the Religion of Art”
Gilbert Sorrentino, “Polish Mothers and ‘The Knife of the Times’”
Kerry Driscoll, “The Mythos of Mother or Yes, Mrs. Williams”
Neil Baldwin, “The Stecher Trilogy: Williams as Novelist”
Bruce Comens, “Williams, Botticelli, and the Renaissance”
Thomas Schaub, “Williams, Sorrentino, and the Art of the Actual”
The Testament
Joseph Brogunier, “An Annotated Bibliography of Works About William Carlos Williams: 1974-1982”
Stephen Boardway, “Index of People, Books and Things”