{"title":"William Carlos Williams Bibliography 2018","authors":"Simon D. Trüb","doi":"10.1353/wcw.2019.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wcw.2019.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/wcw.2019.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49283075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William Carlos Williams and the Cult of the New","authors":"Tony Barnstone","doi":"10.1353/wcw.2019.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wcw.2019.0009","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article explores the ideology of the avant-garde, with particular reference to sacralization of novelty, technoscience and creativity in modernism in the work of William Carlos Williams. It explores ways in which inherent contradictions in the ideology of the avant-garde problematized substitutions for religious faith, and how Williams navigated questions of belief and doubt in his invented faith. Through readings of poems such as \"Light Becomes Darkness\" and \"The Rose,\" Williams evokes the perpetual present of the reading experience as a way of escaping the cycle of creation and destruction that threatened to undermine all \"new\" work and make it representative of the old. Through a semi-spiritual sacralization of the moment of encounter between the reader and the text, the Cult of the New becomes the Culture of Renewal in which the past is not rejected in favor of an essentialized time of the \"new.\"","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/wcw.2019.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45880822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Should I Write a Poem Now. The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949–1958 ed. by Graziano Krätli (review)","authors":"C. Giorcelli","doi":"10.1353/wcw.2019.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wcw.2019.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/wcw.2019.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42410435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dog and the Fever: A Perambulatory Novella by Pedro Espinosa ed. by Jonathan Cohen (review)","authors":"R. Ratzan","doi":"10.1353/wcw.2019.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wcw.2019.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/wcw.2019.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41541263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marking Fifty Years of Williams Scholarship: Linda Wagner-Martin's \"William Carlos Williams's The Great American Novel\"","authors":"A. Fisher-Wirth","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2019.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2019.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The Great American Novel,” which the William Carlos Williams Review is reprinting to celebrate fifty years since its first publication, reminds me of one sunny morning in the late 1970s, when I sat in the garage of the fourroom bungalow my first husband and I rented with our two small children, dangling my legs over the arm of my chair, smoking Kents, and trying to make sense of Williams’s strange, brief book. The garage, with its castoff furniture and the $5 motorcycle that didn’t run, was the only place I could work, a bit removed from the house yet still available in case of emergency. I was preparing to write my dissertation at the time—the dissertation that years later became William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature—and was slowly reading and rereading everything Williams had published. To tell the truth, I don’t think I encountered Wagner-Martin’s article back then; mostly, I was focusing on autobiography theory and criticism of Williams’s poetry, and probably the biggest influence on my work was J. Hillis Miller’s 1965 book Poets of Reality. But I wish I had read it. I wish I had had a firmer sense of what’s at stake in The Great American Novel, which Linda Wagner-Martin so beautifully now helps me understand.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2019.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43238595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Thank You Note to Linda Wagner-Martin","authors":"C. Macgowan","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2019.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2019.0000","url":null,"abstract":"a distant stage, in May 1979. This was before I had actually settled down to read her pioneer books and articles on William Carlos Williams. I had only just gravitated towards a decision to write my doctoral dissertation on the poet, aided by Walt Litz’s argument that Williams would be a better subject to explore than the other author I had pitched to him with fervor. Having only just gotten started, I was in the process of reading what seemed like a very long list of works by our author. To be followed by what seemed the much shorter list of books and articles on our author—and Linda Wagner-Martin’s name appeared alongside quite a few of them. The occasion of this distant glimpse—which brought some reassurance that young scholars survived the years of doctoral research that loomed ahead, that such scholars might get jobs, and that they might even still have the energy left that Linda Wagner-Martin displayed in her presentation— was what was billed as the “William Carlos Williams ‘Spring and All’ Festival” at Kean College (since 1997, University) of New Jersey. As I look now at the review of the event, which appeared in the WCWN in Spring 1980, I am astonished that the program was so full. Evidently over 200 people attended. Among other events, Harvey Shapiro and David Ignatow read, two films were shown, and there was an evening performance of Williams’s The First President along with the Theodore Harris score adapted for two pianos. I’ll confess that forty years later I remember only the opera, because it seemed to go on for rather a long time, and that distant view of Linda WagnerMartin on stage; the latter because of the many reminders in the years to come of her pioneer studies, as well as the contributions that followed them. A Thank You Note to Linda Wagner-Martin","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2019.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47753476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Pop! So, You're Not Dead!\": Reimagining Loss in William Carlos Williams's \"Burning the Christmas Greens\" and \"The Sparrow\"","authors":"Paul R. Cappucci","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2019.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2019.0005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines William Carlos Williams's depiction of his father's death on Christmas day 1918. Williams's narrative account of this event in the Autobiography reveals his complex response as son, doctor, and poet. Along with describing the helplessness he felt witnessing his father's physical deterioration, he also expresses a profound sense of guilt for his actions on that day. Williams's correspondence from this period also reveals a desire to understand this death's larger implications for his life and work. These personal accounts serve as a foundation for a subsequent interpretation of two elegiac poems rooted in this experience: \"Burning the Christmas Greens\" and \"The Sparrow.\"","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2019.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45461177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's Note","authors":"Ian D. Copestake","doi":"10.1353/wcw.2019.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wcw.2019.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/wcw.2019.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43792393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pictures from Jutland: Placing the Poetries of Seamus Heaney and William Carlos Williams","authors":"Ciarán O' Rourke","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2019.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2019.0004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines the lines of influence and correlation between the work of William Carlos Williams and that of Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Highlighting Heaney's formative encounter with Williams's poetry during his time teaching in California in the early 1970s, this article attends to questions of form, place, idiom, and political concern that both figures engage. The second half of the article features a comparative discussion of each poet's response to images of the Tollund Man, a millennia-old sacrificial victim that was preserved in peat until its discovery in 1950 in Denmark. Proposing a literary genre based on the relationship between poetry, photography and violence in a 20th-century context, this article also alludes to the work of Walter Benjamin.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2019.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44516330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William Carlos Williams's The Great American Novel","authors":"Linda W. Wagner-Martin","doi":"10.1353/WCW.2019.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/WCW.2019.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The author summarizes and appraises the achievement and ambition of Williams Carlos Williams's 1923 work, The Great American Novel, arguing against its characterization as merely experimental by showing how it expresses many of Williams's lifelong concerns with contemporary culture and the fate of art in America.","PeriodicalId":53869,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/WCW.2019.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43373491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}