"Something urgent I have to say to you"
Subtitle: the life and works of William Carlos Williams
By: Herbert Leibowitz
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780374113292
Subjects: Biography; American Poets
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overture to William Carlos Williams's Danse Américaine; title: Poetry as biographical evidence; title: Roots and branches of the family tree; title: "Halfway to hell"; title: Youthful fumblings; title: Many loves; title: A risqué liaison with the fabulous baroness; title: Adventures in the skin trade; title: Experimental breakthroughs; title: The "strange phosphorus" of American history; title: Revisiting the seductions of Europe; title: Confronting the Great Depression; title: New directions in a tumultuous decade; title: Poetry, the mistress, and medicine, the wife; title: The poet in a time of war; title: The magnificent torso : Paterson; title: The lion in winter