Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana Poems
Publisher: Definition Pr
Published: June 1958
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780910492201
Subjects: Poetry
First sentence: "Poetry, like life, states that the very self of a thing is its relations, its having-to-do-with other things."
Description: This is the first published collection of poetry by perhaps the greatest of all 20th century poets.  Certainly William Carlos Williams felt that way.  In his preface to the book, Williams says of  Siegel  that he had "outstripped the world of his time," and that all other poets (and Williams was including himself, too) "were compelled to follow his lead."  The title poem, "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana," won The Nations Poetry Prize in 1925, and is an unquestioned masterpiece, and the volume contains a very wide range of Siegel's work--from the early 1920s through to the mid 1950s.