The legacy of William Carlos Williams
Subtitle: points of contact
By: edited by Ian Copestake.
Contributors: Copestake, Ian D., 1969-
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.; Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Newcastle, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781847181947
Subjects: Williams, William Carlos, -- 1883-1963 -- Influence.; Williams, William Carlos, -- 1883-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: These essays collectively examine the reasons for Williams' continued importance to the work of a diverse range of American poets, and to the development of distinct branches of poetics throughout the 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Steven Gould Axelrod; title: Williams, Frost and the magic of the commonplace / Peter Halter; title: "To make a figure heroic yet modern": uncovering the playwright in the letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams / A. J. Krivak; title: Requiem for Leipzig: Williams, Zukofsky, and poetic realism / Todd Carmody; title: Poetics-poems-politics: the politically subversive force in Williams's poems of the 1920s and 1930s / Christina Oltmann; title: Evolutions and improvisations: method and materiality in Kora in Hell / Eric White; title: "The eternal bride and / father; title: quid pro quo": Williams, Marcia Nardi and Paterson / Erin E. Templeton; title: "We are all dealers in used furniture": marriage in Robert Lowell's poetry and the counseling of Williams / Grzegorz Kosc; title: Jackson Pollock's "Blobs of paint" in the poetry of Williams and Frank O'Hara / Paul Cappucci; title: "push ... / thing ... / other ... /... work": Robert Creeley, Williams and the poem as a machine made of words / Nick Selby; title: Creeley and Williams: measuring Williams's selected essays / Christopher MacGowan; title: Williams without words: a dialogue with Michael Palmer / David Arnold; title: "Close to Williams' house": Williams to Armantrout via Niedecker / Robert Stanton.