I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Williams, William Carlos

 
9780811207072: I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet (New Directions Paperbook)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0811207072 ISBN 13: 9780811207072
Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 1977

Inhaltsangabe

Subtitled "The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet," this unique volume was the result of a series of informal conversations in the mid-1950s between Dr. Williams, his wife, and Edith Heal, then a student at Columbia University. In the relaxed atmosphere of the Williams home in Rutherford, New Jersey, the three discussed, chronologically, the poet's works as collected on his very own library shelves. "There was an air of discovery about the whole procedure," Miss Heal writes in her introduction, "the poet's excited 'Why I'd forgotten this dedication, ' the unexpected appearance of reviews that had been tucked away in the pages of the books, pencilled corrections in the text, scrawled first drafts on prescription blanks." I Wanted to Write a Poem is, then, a brief "talking" bibliography, alive with the Williamses' memories of the circumstances in which the books were brought into being--in Miss Heal's words, "a nostalgic review of the early twentieth-century literary world."

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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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'I Wanted to Write a Poem' is, then, a brief 'talking' bibliography, alive with the Williamses' memories of the circumstances in which the books were brought into being-in Miss Heal's words, 'a nostalgic review of the early twentieth-century literary world.'

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Verlag
NEW DIRECTIONS
Erscheinungsdatum
1977
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0811207072
ISBN 13 
9780811207072
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
132
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