Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions, NY
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780811211871ISBN:0811211878
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NEW DIRECTIONS
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780811211871ISBN:0811211878
Description: New. 'And when the second and final colume of Williams' 'Collected Poems' is published, it should become even more apparent that he is this century's major American poet. '--Larry Kart, 'Chicago Tribune' read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1991-09-01
ISBN-13:9780811211871ISBN:0811211878
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780811211871ISBN:0811211878
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"Basically I read this on the Point Pleasant beach in summer of 1985. My friend Rich Markert and I rented a house off the canal. I ride my bike or car to the main beach & read for a month."
"Just as the nature of briars is to tear flesh, I have proceeded through them. Keep the briars out, they say. You cannot live and keep free of briars. - from "The Ivy Crown"
WCW is a mixed bag: romantic, prolific, innovative, influential and often deeply moving, but he fails as often as he succeeds. Fortunately, his successes are truly phenomenal. Everyone knows The Red Wheelbarrow and far too much self-conscious ink has been spilled on that little poem for me to add any here. Many of his other works, however, should by rights overshadow TRW, and deserve much more attention than they seem to receive: The Descent, The Ivy Crown and Landscape with the Fall of Icarus should be required reading for all poets or readers of poetry. Love that "American Variable Foot!"
"You really need to read the Collected to understand Williams. The various Selecteds out there really don't do this remarkable poet justice (though the review I read of Pinsky's new edited volume of Williams was positive--haven't checked that out yet). Williams was not just an Imagist poet, writing about how much depends on that red wheelbarrow, not just a free verse confessional poet of the late books, inspiration to Robert Lowell, the one who allowed him and Snodgrass and Plath and Sexton to "break through back into life." Williams was a radically experimental, avant-garde poet who explicitly modeled his poetic practice on modernist industrial design, on Duchamp's readymade esthetics, on Cubist simultaneity and fractured depth and ground, on Transcendentalist notions of "notching the present moment on your stick," to misquote Thoreau, of basically "being here now" in the moment of the reading experience, experiencing reading as an almost religious act. He gave his whole heart and mind and life to the craft and study and practice of poetry, and is not easily summed up. Get Vol. 2 as well!"
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