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Gathers the author's reviews, essays, and letters concerning modern poets, including Rexroth, Lowell, and Ginsberg
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This book collects all of Williams' known writings--reviews, essays, introductions, and letters to the editor--on the two generations of poets that followed him. Only a revived clarity and accuracy in sight and expression would enable the modern world to reform a social order which Williams saw in complete disarray.
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Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Something to Say: William Carlos Williams on Younger Poets collects all of Williams known writingsreviews, essays, introductions, and letters to the editoron the two generations of poets that followed him, from Kenneth Rexroth and Louis Zukofsky to Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg. What might have been a random collection of occasional pieces achieves remarkable coherence from the singleness of Williams poetic vision: his belief that the secret spirit of ritual, of poetry, was trapped in restrictive molds, and, if these could be broken, the spirit would be able to live again in a new, contemporary form. Only a revived clarity and accuracy in sight and expression would enable the modern world to reform social order which Williams saw in complete disarray. To resuscitate American Poetry, Williams concentrated his efforts on the purification of poetic speechhis American idiomand on remaking the poetic line in a new measurehis variable foot. And while his battles with his contemporaries on these issues could be heated, he was always a nurturing father to the young, a useful presence, a model and a liberator. He told Ginsberg to pare down and economize, Roethke to open up, and encouraged Lowell and Levertov to shake off poetic conventions. But in all his emphasis on the poem as a made object of concrete physicality or as a field of action, he would return again and again to this basic advice to young writers: The only thing necessary is to have something to say when at last the opportunity comes to say it. Gathers the author's reviews, essays, and letters concerning modern poets, including Rexroth, Lowell, and Ginsberg Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780811209557
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