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The Wedge. / William Carlos Williams.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 W6762 944w copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Williams, Florence H. (Florence Herman), -1976 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copies 1 & 2)
- University of Pennsylvania. Library (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy 3)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 109 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 14 cm
- Edition:
- [First (limited) edition].
- Place of Publication:
- [Cummington, Mass.] : The Cummington Press, MCMXLIV [1944]
- Contents:
- A sort of a song
- Catastrophic birth
- Paterson: The falls
- The dance (in Breughel's great picture)
- Writer's prologue to a play in verse
- Burning the Christmas greens
- In chains
- In sisterly fashion
- The world narrowed to a point
- The observer
- A flowing river
- The hounded lovers
- The cure
- To all gentleness
- Three sonets
- The poem (It's all in the sound)
- The rose (The stillness of the rose)
- Rumba! Rumba!
- A plea for mercy
- Figueras castle
- Eternity
- The hard listener
- The controversy
- Perfection
- These purists
- A vision of labor: 1931
- The last turn
- The end of the parade
- The A, B & C of it
- The thoughtful lover
- The aftermath
- The semblables
- The storm
- The forgotten city
- The yellow chimney
- The bare tree
- Raleigh was right
- The monstrous marriage
- Sometimes it turns dry and the leaves fall before they are beautiful
- Sparrows among dry leaves
- Prelude to winter
- Silence
- Another year
- The clouds
- A cold front
- Against the sky
- An address
- The gentle negress (Wandering among the chimneys)
- To Ford Madox Ford in heaven.
- Notes:
- "Copyright 1944 by William Carlos Williams."
- Includes author's introduction (p. 5-11).
- "The Wedge has been set up by hand in Centaur & Arrighi types and first printed on Dacian paper. The edition is limited to 380 copies. The device on the title and cover is from a drawing by Wightman Williams, who decorated the cover-papers. Cummington, Massachusetts, completed August, 1944."
- Deep orange marbled paper boards with black design on front cover.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has spine disbound.
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 inscribed "For Floss with my love Bill".
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has marginal marks and textual corrections.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has autograph W. C. Williams.
- Culture Class Collection copy 3 has front cover disbound and spine wanting.
- Culture Class Collection copy 3 has embossed stamp University of Pennsylvania Library.
- OCLC:
- 808580
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