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“... them.’ The innovators to whom he refers are those American poets – Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, William CarlosWilliams and others – whose work and moral example have been of importance to his own growth as a writer. The sentence quoted above, with its tinge of elegy and irony, occurs in the fourth and final ...”

“... Kenneth Koch (pronounced ‘coke’) could do a mean impersonation of William CarlosWilliams. ‘This is Just to Say’, Williams’s note asking forgiveness for eating the plums in the icebox which ‘you were probably/saving/for breakfast’ on the grounds that they were ‘so sweet/and so cold’, gets the Koch treatment in ‘Variations on a Theme by William CarlosWilliams’: I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer ...”

“... Madison, is 34 miles north-west and Milwaukee about 60 miles away, east-northeast. Jonathan Williams, of Jargon Press, visited Niedecker in 1962, a year before her second marriage to Albert Millen and subsequent move to Milwaukee: Miss Niedecker, I guess in her fifties by now, lives in a tiny green house out at Black Hawk Island . . . Right out in back ...”

“... The painters have paid too much attention to the ism and not enough to the painting,’ William CarlosWilliams wrote in 1928. Something similar could be said about Williams’s own critics: since his death in 1963, attention to his theories and to his life has been getting in the way of his poems ...”

“... check.American poets have never tired of the wonders of refrigeration. Ever since William CarlosWilliams pilfered plums from the icebox there have been songs in praise of fridges and their contents – and why shouldn’t there be? Ruefle’s poems make the most of such wonders. In ‘Love ...”

“... when the batteries have run down’. The surprise is that instead of lecturing on Wallace Stevens, William CarlosWilliams, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Gertrude Stein and Marianne Moore, all of whom he acknowledges as ‘major influences’, he discusses an eclectic group of 19th and 20th-century poets who for the ...”

“... all these and others, though clearly different, are unimaginable without Pound, early Eliot, William CarlosWilliams and perhaps Wallace Stevens as forerunners. This is the main stream of modern American poetry. In England the picture is very different. Pound is grudgingly acknowledged, distrusted, kept at a ...”

“... are cinematic. The plainness of diction and spare style was acquired, at least in part, from William CarlosWilliams, an early enthusiasm, with his habit of detailed observation and fascination with the ordinary or non-poetic: what Williams himself called the ‘imaginative ...”

“... it new’. It included a short, boisterous preface by Pound. Reviewing it for Poetry in 1934, William CarlosWilliams called it a blueprint for ‘a new construction’, undertaken with an ‘irreducible minimum’ of means. The icy charm of those poems, 31 in all, one per page, along with their brevity and ...”

“... fir. The sea poem had come a long way from ‘Casabianca’. As a historian, Carr is ecumenical: William Brooke Smith, a student who died of tuberculosis in 1908, is given as much consideration as Pound’s other early friend William CarlosWilliams; Marianne Moore, who matriculated ...”

“... volume of new poems, is aimed squarely at transcendence. The title has a humble and practical William CarlosWilliams ring to it, but that is misleading. It is better understood as having been distilled from ‘I must be seeing things’, said seriously, and with a fair amount of stress on the ‘I must’. The ...”

“... born. By 1936, when its first anthology was published, the names of contributors included Pound, William CarlosWilliams, E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore. For 35 years Pound advised, instructed, cajoled, abused, while Laughlin for the most part acted on the good advice, ignored the bad, and behaved ...”

“... it clear whether they mean Robert Lowell, or Allen Ginsberg, or the Black Mountain imitators of William CarlosWilliams. ‘The Liverpool Poets’ are regarded with a mixture of fear and derision. ‘The ranks of the illiterate raise puerile and rhythmless voices,’ wrote Roy Fuller. ‘Infantile simplicity is ...”

“... and George Oppen. The three, all Jewish New Yorkers, shared an admiration for Ezra Pound and William CarlosWilliams and a belief, along with Williams, that American modernism should be relocated from Paris and London to the US. Asked to edit an issue of Poetry in 1931, Zukofsky ...”

“... or two to a former lover, Gertrude Buckman, a sentence to George Santayana and two sentences to William CarlosWilliams. Of these communications, those to Bishop, Buckman and Williams are certified as ‘written during an acute manic episode’, but the others are not. A few days ...”