Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.40.2.0262
Simon D. Trüb
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.40.2.0186
Brandon James O’Neil
Emily Dickinson Wellcome has been called the “essential muse” of her grandson, William Carlos Williams. Paul Mariani, when bestowing this sobriquet, further states that Williams identified her “with nothing less than the deepest promptings of his unconscious self” (8). To look more deeply into Williams’s unconscious self and detect Emily’s presence, this essay relies on a close reading of three poems—“Dedication for a Plot of Ground,” “The Last Words of My English Grandmother,” and “An Exultation”—against the psychic structures proposed by Jungian analytical psychology. Emily’s adherence to Christian Science alluded to in the poems and referenced in Williams biographies will be demonstrated as a crucial component of the contra-sexual unconscious complex Carl Gustav Jung terms the anima, contrasted against the consciously constructed persona of the medically oriented ‘Doctor Williams.’
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.40.1.0077
W. Mohr
abstract:This essay focuses on the impact of the period of William Carlos Williams's literary career in which he was most publicly visible on the West Coast, primarily through a pair of reading tours, and his subsequent influence on a set of poets who worked as editors or co-editors of poetry magazines in Southern California. In particular, literary activists who were poets, editors, and publishers, such as Paul Vangelisti and Lyn Hejinian, championed the work of those who largely absorbed Williams's impact after his death. These poets are radically diverse, ranging from Charles Bukowski to Rae Armantrout, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman, and Larry Eigner. All of these poets contributed to the maturation of the West Coast Poetry Renaissance through the remainder of the last century.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.40.1.0098
Kevin Craft
abstract:This article explores the legacy of William Carlos Williams among poets living and working in the Pacific Northwest. It takes up the question of a "regional poetics" that often surfaces in discussions of the Northwest, favoring an expansive definition of place as "elsewhere" in the twenty-first century American experience. In the Northwest, wilderness is the substantive elsewhere that informs regional identity. Examining the consequential relationship Williams had with Theodore Roethke and others such Denise Levertov, and his influence among subsequent generations of poets such as Rae Armantrout and Heather McHugh, I argue for a poetics of regeneration commensurate with wilderness values to preserve the vitality of land and language alike.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.40.1.0161
C. Macgowan
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.40.1.0163
Ian D. Copestake
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.40.1.0007
Alan Soldofsky
abstract:This article aims to show the pervasive influence of William Carlos Williams's later more "personalist" work, in particular, on the poetry of Kenneth Rexroth, Philip Whalen, and Joanne Kyger. I analyze how Williams's later poetics influence West Coast poets, particularly Kenneth Rexroth, whose idea of a "personalist" poetics stands opposed to the "impersonalist" aesthetics of T.S. Eliot-Ezra Pound wing of modernism. I then introduce close readings of several poems of Philip Whalen, whose personalist style is more internal and less extraverted than the other poets and represents another step away from the modernist Williams and toward a highly subjective personalist aesthetic where the poem can become a graph of the poet's "mind moving." I go on to argue that Joanne Kyger's poetic practice is much influenced by Whalen's innovative take on Williams's discursive poetics and contend that Kyger's Zen-influenced "poetics of interconnectedness" contribute to her reframing Bolinas as an aesthetic site strongly connected to Williams's post-Paterson sensibilities.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.40.1.0122
M. Long
abstract:This article traces the development of a poetics of local experience, knowledge, and speech in William Carlos Williams and Gary Snyder. Reading Williams's essays alongside Snyder's journals, letters, interviews, and prose essays, I argue that Snyder's ideas about language and place are deeply and intricately related to Williams's modernist dedication to the problem of living together in place—of cultivating through creative work a convivial local culture. This communal orientation, while implicit in Williams's ideas about the generosity of art, is developed in Snyder's ecological reckoning with the loss of biological and cultural diversity and his embrace of what I call a poetics of conviviality and care.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.40.1.0051
Enaiê Mairê Azambuja
abstract:The effervescent cultural scene of the West Coast in the 1950s—particularly regarding movements such as the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation—was influenced by Eastern thought and religious practices. These were disseminated by figures such as the Japanese scholar D.T. Suzuki and the Bay Area-based and self-proclaimed "philosophical entertainer" Alan Watts. Along with Watts, another influential figure for the West Coast poets—having even served as mentor to Allen Ginsberg—was William Carlos Williams. This essay argues that, influenced by Zen Buddhist principles, both Williams and Watts propose a vision of the imagination as a cosmological force capable of merging the material and transcendental dimensions of reality. This essay suggests that Williams's and Watts's concepts and their understanding of Zen Buddhist ideas deeply affected the works of the West Coast poets and laid the foundations for their cross-cultural interests as well as their experimentation with poetics and spirituality.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.39.2.0187
Sam Hushagen
ABSTRACT:Long linked to pastoral, Williams’s engagement with the literary past is more complex than critics recognize. His emphasis on formal mediation and compositional method rather than rigid convention connect him to traditions of georgic that emphasize the craftwork of writing poems. Particularly in Spring and All, Williams engages georgic to critically examine the classical “praise of spring” motif and rethink dominant accounts of perceptual experience.
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