Making sense of William Carlos Williams’s political commitments continues to be of interest in all its rather complicated forms and iterations. One recent, ambitious approach is that of Mark Steven in Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism, a book apparently timed to appear in October 2017 on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Appear it did, staking a claim on links connecting Williams, Pound, and Zukofsky not just as modernist poetic innovators and experimenters, and thus literary revolutionists of sorts, but as poets deeply implicated in the politics of communist revolution in the twentieth century. Less specifically devoted to Williams, and somewhat in contrast to Steven’s enlistment of Williams as a revolutionist through the implications of style and genre, Poet Critics and the Administration of Culture by Evan Kindley, portrays the attenuation of the radical impulses of modernism as the twentieth century wore on and Cold War liberalism as a strategic safe zone for careerists in poetry. BOOK REVIEW
理解威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯(William Carlos Williams)的政治承诺，在其相当复杂的形式和迭代中，仍然是一个有趣的问题。最近，马克·史蒂文(Mark Steven)在《红色现代主义:美国诗歌和共产主义精神》(Red Modernism: American Poetry and Spirit of Communism)中提出了一个雄心勃勃的方法，这本书显然定于2017年10月布尔什维克革命周年纪念日出版。看来确实如此，它声称威廉姆斯、庞德和祖可夫斯基之间的联系不仅是现代主义诗歌的革新者和实验者，因此是各种各样的文学革命家，而且是与二十世纪共产主义革命政治有深刻牵连的诗人。埃文·金德利的《诗人批评家与文化管理》没有特别提到威廉姆斯，与史蒂文通过风格和体裁的暗示把威廉姆斯作为革命者相比，它描绘了20世纪现代主义激进冲动的衰减，以及冷战时期自由主义作为诗歌野心家的战略安全区。书评
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.36.1.0045
Copestake
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.36.1.0001
O’ Rourke
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ABSTRACT:This article examines the “genome” of the influence William Carlos Williams’s poetry has had in terms of its vernacular speech-based aesthetics on the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance. The influence of Williams’s work on Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Joanne Kyger are examined. This article argues that Williams’s influence becomes a fixture in the evolution of Bay Area poets and poetics after the San Francisco Renaissance and ascendancy of Beat Poetry, through its continuation into the decades of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Abella, Rubén. “‘Language Is in Its January’: Dada and William Carlos Williams’s Early Prose.” William Carlos Williams Review 34.2 (2017): 110–28. Allkins, Alisa. “Dismantling Clinical Authority in Paterson.” William Carlos Williams Review 34.2 (2017): 129–52. Carr, Julie. “On Property and Monstrosity.” The American Poetry Review 46.2 (2017): 39–42. Crawford, T. Hugh. “Walking with William Carlos Williams.” William Carlos Williams Review 34.2 (2017): 93–109. Cureton, Richard. “Readings in Temporal Poetics: Four Poems by William Carlos Williams.” Style 51.2 (2017): 187–206. Daniel, Julia E. “William Carlos Williams and the Failures of Planning.” Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2017. 87–118. Feinsod, Harris. “William Carlos Williams and the Ardor of Puerto Rico.” The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017. 71–87. William Carlos Williams Bibliography 2017
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ABSTRACT:This article argues that Williams is fascinated with waste. As a result, he finds both inspiration and aesthetic material among the waste he claims to reject. In turn, this article uses dumpster diving as a hermeneutic for analyzing Williams’s writing, which foregrounds forms of trash to dirty the modernist canon and highlight environmental issues. The material history of Williams’s New Jersey landscape is discussed—namely, the infamous detritus of the Meadowlands—and its influence on Williams’s works. To conclude, the concept of litterality, or the intersection of real, mimetic, and formal forms of waste is taken up to unpack the related notion of the waste commons.
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ABSTRACT:This article argues that Williams’s “The Avenue of Poplars” represents the most mature expression of Williams’s notion of imaginative sexuality. This poem brings to the attention of the reader one part of the imagination, which can, when linked with the other aspects of the imagination manifest in Spring and All, create a haven for the artist wandering in the modern world.
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ABSTRACT:This article explores the innovative use of punctuation marks in William Carlos Williams’s epic poem Paterson. Paying close attention to the typographical features of the poem, it argues that Williams aligns the textual surface with social spaces and uses the exclamation mark and the dash creatively in his modern epic to problematize the dynamic between the human subject and the vernacular landscape. These typographical idiosyncrasies are testimony to Williams’s vision of a localist poetics that is rooted in the American soil.
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This issue is dedicated to the memory of Bryce Conrad, editor of the William Carlos Williams Review from 2004 to 2010, who died on 14 September 2017 after a long battle with brain cancer. On announcing the news of Bryce’s death to the Board of the journal and to the membership of the Williams Society, a warmth of feeling pervaded the responses both of those who knew him well or had only known him through correspondences. As tends to be the rhythm of friendships in academia they are often fed only by meeting at conferences but can be established in advance by knowing a person through their writing. I certainly had my first impression of Bryce through reading Refiguring America as a postgraduate in Leeds. To then be in contact with him by email confirmed what I felt on finally meeting him in person, namely that he was a warm, genuine, engaged and interested man, who could put you at ease in an instant. It remains the proudest moment of my professional life when, after guest editing the Spring issue of the Review in 2009, we did indeed meet at an MLA conference and he then asked me to take on the editorship of the journal. I can only begin to imagine the struggles Bryce had in keeping the journal going until his illness demanded he step back, and I will always be grateful to him for trusting me with a publication that he had revived in 2004 after its six-year publication hiatus. Indeed, Bryce’s wife, Anastasia Coles, noted that Bryce’s role in getting the Review back on its feet was something he regarded “as a highlight of his career. It gave him a chance to be connected with scholarship when his teaching and administrative duties tended to eat up all his time. He was always distraught though about not being able to give it as much time as he had wanted.” In the celebration of Bryce’s work that follows I was happy to include his 1995 essay on Gertrude Stein both to complement its place in Todd Giles’s heartfelt recollection of his mentor and friend and to offer a sense of Bryce’s own academic starting points and interests. I am also grateful to John Lowney for sharing his memories of Bryce and for reflecting on the work of history and of language that helped bring so many of us closer to both Williams and ultimately to the much missed author of Refiguring America, Bryce Conrad.
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ABSTRACT:The author offers a personal reflection on the influence of Bryce Conrad as teacher and mentor. He emphasizes Bryce’s generosity and concern for his students at Texas Tech University. The article invites contributions to the Bryce Conrad Memorial Scholarship Fund in English established in Bryce’s honor.
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