Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.39.1.0105
Luke Sayers
ABSTRACT:This essay examines William Carlos Williams's relationship to economic, cultural, and political nationalism. First, it argues that Williams's fascination with the Social Credit movement was rooted in the nationalist paradigm of economics of C.H. Douglas and Friedrich List. This section also examines archival letters between Williams and literary critic and founder of the American Social Credit Movement Gorham Munson in order to uncover some of Williams's motivations and values that led him to sympathize with economic and cultural nationalism. The essay then provides a close reading of Williams's poem "Pastoral [When I was younger]" in order to show how his political and economic nationalist ideology influenced his aesthetics, particularly in the way that Williams imagines communities in his poetry. By analyzing both his economics and poetry, this essay concludes that Williams was more closely tied to broader ideological trends toward nationalism in early twentiethcentury thinking than has often been thought, thereby revising current understandings of the politics of modernism.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-25DOI: 10.5325/WILLCARLWILLREVI.38.1.0001
Rebekah Taylor-Wiseman
abstract:This article argues that Williams’s Spring and All vacillates between two contradictory temporalities indicative of the Anthropocene 1) the disorienting experience of rapid technological and environmental change, what we might call compressed time, and 2) a deep-time-awareness of the human species as geological agent whose extinction will one day be measurable by the products of our imagination recorded in the fossil layer (increased CO2 and plastics, for example). The imagination accounts for our greatest failures and our only hope, and “This is its book” (CP1 178), Williams tells us. As he employs his reader’s imagination to consider a variety of contradictory temporal scales, he anticipates the condition of the Anthropocene where the blink of an eye and millions of years clash, and humans-as geological-force determine the livability of our planet for both our ancestors and future kin.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-25DOI: 10.5325/WILLCARLWILLREVI.38.1.0021
Karen M. Cardozo
abstract:Expanding on the concept of essaying democracy as evinced in the post/modern intertextual relations between Williams, Maxine Hong Kingston and Richard Rodriguez around In the American Grain, this article deploys a similar intertextual approach to illuminate a related mode of poetic history enacted by Williams, Walter Benjamin, Joshua Corey and Susan Howe. Linking Benjamin’s philosophy of history, the concept of aura in the work of art, theory of translation and related notions of tactility, it argues that the transtemporal kinship of these different writers is forged by a shared understanding of poetic history as a countervailing force to the limits of empiricism and dangers of official history—an aesthetic and ethical mode of translation that, however fleetingly, strives to touch the truth of the past.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-25DOI: 10.5325/WILLCARLWILLREVI.38.1.0054
Cureton
abstract:This article provides a complete reading of the rhythm and form of William Carlos Williams’s 1930 “Poem” (As the cat), using “temporal poetics,” a theory of poetic form based on rhythm. Rhythm is defined as having four major components—meter, grouping, prolongation, and theme—and it is the contrasting qualities of these rhythmic components that are the basis of poetic form. Poetic form is paradigmatic, organized into leveled quadratures whose levels, across paradigms, “correspond.” Corresponding forms create different “temporalities”—cyclical, centrodial, linear, and relative—which “correspond” to forms with the same organization in context, both world and mind.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-03DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.37.2.0119
C. Giorcelli
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Pub Date : 2020-12-03DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.37.2.0234
Simon D. Trüb
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Pub Date : 2020-12-03DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.37.2.0121
E. Wallace
abstract :In this article reprinted from the William Carlos Williams Review 8.1 (Spring 1982): 8–41, the author traces the relationship between William Gratwick and his wife Harriet and the Williamses focusing on the impact on Williams of the farm at Gratwick Highlands in Linwood. The importance of nature and the pastoral to Williams's creative life as well as his health is emphasized, which he experienced intensely here through, in particular, Bill Gratwick's enthusiasm for the cultivation of tree peonies. The author subsequently reflects on the importance of this experience to Williams's writing of poems such as "The Yellow Tree Peony," a poem unpublished in Williams's lifetime, as well as reflecting on Williams's use of nature and nature writing in his battle with depression.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-03DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.37.1.0001
Ian D. Copestake
{"title":"Editor's Note","authors":"Ian D. Copestake","doi":"10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.37.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.37.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46949981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-03DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.37.2.0211
Jessica Drexel
abstract:This article aims to reconcile William Carlos Williams's emulation of Ezra Pound's tenet "make it new" with the seemingly antithetical underworld myth that pervades his poetry. Interpreting Kora in Hell and "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" through the lens of trauma theory permits readers to locate hell in a space that is simultaneously subjective, and therefore new, but which also provides a systematic understanding of violence and death in his work. Kora and "Asphodel" thus draw mythic unity from this latter quality, rather than from the traditional association of Kora and the underworld with Greco-Roman myth narratives canonized in Western literature. Through the trauma reading of these texts, it is shown how the subjective hell myth provides Williams with an indirect language for re-integration after the experience of trauma. Subjective myth thus provides a way to speak around trauma as a therapeutic alternative to speechlessness.
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abstract :In this article reprinted from the William Carlos Williams Review 8.1 (Spring 1982): 8–41, the author traces the relationship between William Gratwick and his wife Harriet and the Williamses focusing on the impact on Williams of the farm at Gratwick Highlands in Linwood. The importance of nature and the pastoral to Williams's creative life as well as his health is emphasized, which he experienced intensely here through, in particular, Bill Gratwick's enthusiasm for the cultivation of tree peonies. The author subsequently reflects on the importance of this experience to Williams's writing of poems such as "The Yellow Tree Peony," a poem unpublished in Williams's lifetime, as well as reflecting on Williams's use of nature and nature writing in his battle with depression.
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