William Carlos Williams

The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams is the most engaging and lively of literary correspondences - at once a portrait of two geniuses the testimony of their remarkable friendship, and a seedbed of ideas about American poetry. With a 1951 fan letter, the young British poet introduced herself to Williams, and by 1959, Williams is congratulating Levertov on her growth: "this book challenge s] me so that I am glad I am not younger.... You have not always written so excellently.... I am going to read these first half-dozen poems - maybe more - until as an old man I have penetrated to where your secret is hid." The letters also chronicle their search (individually and together) for a set of formal poetic principles, a search which culminated for Levertov in 1965, when she coined the term "organic form." The warmth, the directness, the flavorsome individuality of the letters - 34 from Levertov and 42 from Williams - increased with their growing intimacy and mutual regard. Always intriguing, their independent-minded letters, which end with the elder poet's death in 1962, have great piquancy and charm. Denise Levertov herself initiated this project, and was then, in the year before her death, "fascinated to read the exchange." This edition also includes the correspondence between Levertov and Williams's widow Florence. Professor Christopher MacGowan, the noted Williams scholar, contributes a superb introduction and informative annotations throughout.

The letters discuss modernism, art, publishing, and the writer/editor relationship between the two men.

Uno de los poemarios m s memorables de la poes a del siglo XX. «Williams es el autor de los poemas m s v vidos de la poes a norteamericana moderna. -Octavio Paz William Carlos Williams consigue explorar en este libro turbadoramente emotivo todos los matices de la experiencia amorosa. En estos poemas se condensa el viaje biogr fico y po tico de un hombre, contemplado desde una vejez dura, enferma. El camino es el amor: «el amor es / crueldad que con / voluntad transformamos / para estar juntos . El recuerdo de los a os, la memoria compartida, el da o infligido y la conciencia de la belleza son algunos de los motivos que recorren todo el libro y que desembocan en «Asf delo , el mejor poema conyugal jam s escrito, dedicado a toda una vida en com n. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the most memorable poetry collections of the twentieth century. "Williams is the author of the most vivid poems in modern American poetry." -- Octavio Paz In this hauntingly emotional book, William Carlos Williams manages to explore every nuance of the experience of love. Within these poems lies the biographical and poetic journey of a man seen from the perspective of an old age marked by hardship and illness. The path is love: "love is / cruelty that with / will we transform / so we can be together." The memory of the years, the shared recollections, the wounds inflicted, and the awareness of beauty are some of the recurring themes throughout the book, culminating in "Asphodel," the finest conjugal poem ever written--an ode to an entire life shared.

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963) sista decennium präglades av ohälsa. Likväl var skaparkraften obruten och han utkom med tre böcker. Urvalet i denna volym är tidigare outgivna dikter hämtade från hans senaste bok Pictures from Brueghel (1962) samt från två tidigare samlingar. Dikterna har, med ett undantag, inte tidigare översatts till svenska. Williams sökte i hela sitt liv efter ett versmått som var bundet men ändå fritt - ”the variable foot”, som han kallade det. Utgångspunkten var det amerikanska talspråket, och hans strävanden resulterade i en poesi vars radindelning framhäver frasering och betoning samtidigt som den är visuellt överraskande. Den dimensionen låter sig inte fullt ut överföras vid en översättning, men förhoppningsvis kan den efterliknas. Dikternas konkretion och omedelbarhet störs dock inte av bakomliggande verstekniska val. Hos Williams är vi i den fysiska världen, bland tingen. Hans motiv tar ofta avstamp i ett sinnesintryck som leder vidare till en tanke. Barn, djur, frukt, blommor - eller varför inte en dansande snöflinga? Svavel är en handgjord, småskalig och alltid sextonsidig skriftserie innehållande koncentrerad och högklassig litteratur. Böckerna i serien är häftade och i A6-format. Utgivna titlar i Svavel: 1. PETER LUCAS ERIXON Fotismer (2012) 2. MORTEN SONDERGAARD Akut sol (2013) 3. KENNETH KOCH Om estetik (2013) 4. JONAS ELLERSTRÖM Antecknat i Albion (2013) 5. DAN GUSTAVSSON Naturlyrik (2013) 6. CHRISTER BOBERG Haiku (2013) 7. LOUISE JUHL DALSGAARD Att spela squash i ett rum utan väggar (2015) 8. JONAS RASMUSSEN Det hemska vi har gjort (2015) 9. MARIA KÜCHEN Varg (2015) 10. LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Genom eldslågorna (2015) 11. PETRA MÖLSTAD Omloppstid (2015) 12. SIDDHARTHA SEBASTIAN LARSSON Jag har 33 aforismer och du är en av dem (2016) 13. VÄRLDENS KORTASTE ANTOLOGI (2016) 14. JONAS ELLERSTRÖM Antipoderna (2016) 15. RAINER MARIA RILKE Urljud (2016) 16. JONAS RASMUSSEN Därur orden (2016) 17. LEIF HOLMSTRAND Avstå från tragedierna (2017) 18. VÄRLDENS KORTASTE ESSÄSAMLING (2017) 19. EVA RIBICH Kvar (2018) 20. CIA RINNE Vad angår meningar är jag förtvivlad (2020) 21. RUNE CHRISTIANSEN Transamorem Transmortem (2021) 22. FREDRIK AHLFORS Väderobservationer (2021) 23. CHARLOTTA LJUNG A B C D E (2021) 24. LUISA FAMOS På väg (2022) 25. LINA HAGELBÄCK Låt oss aldrig tala ut (2022) 26. WILLIAMS CARLOS WILLIAMS Som denna blomma framhärdar jag (2023) 27. KENNET KLEMETS eller som när jag blundar (2023)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was an American physician, author, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who lived most of his life in Rutherford, New Jersey. In 1923 he published two works: Spring and All, one of his seminal books of poetry, and his lesser-known, much-overlooked, and vastly underappreciated anti-novel experiment The Great American Novel, which employs what is known today as metafiction to satirize what Williams viewed as the derivative tropes, clich s, and formulaic unoriginality of American novels at the time. Eschewing the time and space of traditional narrative structure and, instead, intermeshing elements of Dadaism, Cubism, Imagism, and plagiarism, Williams "added a new chapter to the art of writing" that simultaneously preempted and foreshadowed postmodernism during the defining decade of modernism.

First published in 1925, although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication. Yet it is "a fundamental book, essential if one proposes to come to terms with American literature" (Times Literary Supplement). William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. Beginning with Columbus's discovery of the Indies and moving on through Sir Walter Raleigh, Cotton Mather, Daniel Boone, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Aaron Burr, Edgar Allan Poe, and Abraham Lincoln, Williams found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning and configurations of character. He brought a poetic imagination to the task of reconstructing a live tradition for Americans, and what results is one of the finest works of prose to have been penned by any writer of the twentieth century.

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