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William Carlos Williams Review
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ISSN (Print) 0196-6286 - ISSN (Online) 1935-0244
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Introduction: William Carlos Williams, American Modernism, and West Coast
Culture
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  Abstract: The line must be pliable with speech, for speech, for thought, for the intricacies of new thoughtWilliam Carlos Williams and West Coast Culture: We might begin with a brief reflection on the San Francisco Bay Area as a "culture region" by Robert Hass, who observes that Kenneth Rexroth's first book In What Hourseems—with its open line, its almost Chinese plainness of syntax, its eye to the wilderness, anarchist politics, its cosmopolitanism, experimentalism, interest in Buddhism as a way of life and Christianity as a system of thought and calendar of the seasons, with its interest in pleasure, its urban and backcountry meditations—to have invented the culture of the West Coast.(224)"Seems" is precisely right. ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-28T00:00:00-05:00
William Carlos Williams and West Coast Poetic Culture: Personalist Poetics
from Paterson to Bolinas Mesa
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  Abstract: My purpose in this article is to put in sharper relief the influence of Williams's later work, in particular, on the poems of Kenneth Rexroth, Philip Whalen, and Joanne Kyger. Not only does Williams's use of ordinary speech significantly underpin the work of these poets, but so does his more autobiographical and discursive poetics. Moreover, significant to the evolution of the San Francisco Bay Area's "poetic genome" is the increasing prominence of Williams's autobiographically based, even "confessional" writing, where the text's subject and lyric speaker cannot be read as anything other than a self-reflexive facsimile of Williams himself recording and reflecting upon the actualities of his life.Kenneth Rexroth ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-28T00:00:00-05:00
The Zen-inflected Cosmological Imaginations of William Carlos Williams and
Alan Watts
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  Abstract: In The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac presents a semi-fictionalized account of the ebullient West Coast cultural scene of the mid-1950s, narrating the birth of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, particularly with the Six Gallery reading, as well as capturing Kerouac's contact with Zen Buddhism through his friendship with Gary Snyder. Although peripherally and rather mockingly portrayed in the story, two figures are integral to the development of this scene: William Carlos Williams and Alan Watts. In this essay, I suggest that Williams and Watts were central to the flourishing of West Coast literary movements in the mid-twentieth century, not only by merging Eastern and Western ideas and aesthetics, but also by ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-28T00:00:00-05:00
Mentoring Mavericks: The Influence of William Carlos Williams on the West
Coast Poetry Renaissance
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  Abstract: Sometimes, intermingled with vulgar diction if not blatant profanity, the casual grumblings of non-academic poets about anthologies and the role they play in canonical formation becomes loud enough for a critic to take notice and convert into deft analysis. One such constant canonical provocation, especially for poets who have primarily lived and worked on the West Coast of the United States, is the alleged aesthetic neutrality of editors of anthologies and their denial that any regional bias is at work in their selections. Twenty years ago, Alan Golding took such claims to task and firmly demarcated, once again, the distinctions between the ideological assumptions embedded in the privileged claims of mainstream ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-28T00:00:00-05:00
Journey to Love: William Carlos Williams in the Pacific Northwest
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  Abstract: The place of poetry is nothing less than the place of loveWhen we think of the poetry of William Carlos Williams, the Pacific Northwest is not the first place that comes to mind. Famously committed to the home turf, Williams's poetry circulates through the brownfields and suburbs of northern New Jersey with caustic ease. The landscapes and settings that ground his poems are rooted in the industrial Northeast, or else they seem oddly placeless—like a wheelbarrow in the rain. Yet his influence has been important in the Northwest, as it has in all corners of the country. His commitment to establishing a distinctly American vernacular picks up where Whitman leaves off, though he bends it in an apt, meticulous ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-28T00:00:00-05:00
"What stayed with me": Art, Conviviality, and Culture in William Carlos
Williams and Gary Snyder
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  Abstract: What becomes of me has never seemed to me important, but the fates of ideas living against the grain in a nondescript world have always held me breathless.This article traces the presence of William Carlos Williams in Gary Snyder's explorations of the creative resources of local knowledge and speech within the cultural conditions, circumstances, and complications of place. Williams's life-long commitment to the poetic value of place has been widely acknowledged. He was dedicated to Walt Whitman's "challenge to the entire concept of the poetic idea [… .] [that] enunciated a shocking truth, that the common ground is of itself a poetic source" (Williams, "An Essay" 20)—a commitment to write poems, as Williams defined ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-28T00:00:00-05:00
In Memoriam
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  Abstract: Hugh Witemeyer, who died last May, taught at the University of New Mexico for more than 40 years. Born in Flint, Michigan, Hugh was a central figure in Ezra Pound scholarship, having established his reputation with The Poetry of Ezra Pound: Forms and Renewal: 1908–1920 (University of California, 1969), based on his Princeton dissertation under A. Walton Litz. As well as this career in Pound scholarship, Hugh also made many valuable contributions to scholarship on Williams, including his editions of the selected correspondence between Williams and James Laughlin (Norton, 1989) and the correspondence between Williams and Ezra Pound (New Directions, 1996). He also edited, with Barry Magid, the correspondence between ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-28T00:00:00-05:00