"Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams / Herbert Leibowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leibowitz, Herbert A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxix, 496 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Summary:

The poet, doctor, and publisher William Carlos Williams lived one of the most interesting literary lives of the 20th century. Though initially an imagist poet like Ezra Pound, Williams broke with him and sought to invent an entirely fresh--and singularly American--poetic, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. 560 pp. 10,000 print.

Contents:

Poetry as biographical evidence

Roots and branches of the family tree

"Halfway to hell"

Youthful fumblings

Many loves

A risqué liaison with the fabulous baroness

Adventures in the skin trade

Experimental breakthroughs

The "strange phosphorus" of American history

Revisiting the seductions of Europe

Confronting the Great Depression

New directions in a tumultuous decade

Poetry, the mistress, and medicine, the wife

The poet in a time of war

The magnificent torso: Paterson

The lion in winter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780374113292

0374113297

OCLC:

681499519