William Carlos Williams: A New World NakedIn addition to being a small-town doctor who delivered more than 3,000 babies, William Carlos Williams was a deeply serious thinker considered on of the foremost poets of the century. In this remarkable, rich blend of art and scholarship, Paul Mariani unfolds Williams' life and times while simultaneously letting the reader inside the poet's mind and language. Photographs. |
Contents
The Beast in the Enchanted Forest | 1 |
JArriverai The Turtle Too Gets There | 33 |
Deaths and Transfigurations 19091914 | 74 |
Smashing Windows in Paper Houses | 116 |
Tracking Through the Fog 19211924 | 187 |
The Great American Desert 19241929 | 242 |
Depression 19301933 | 297 |
An Index to the Times 19341937 | 348 |
Intimations of Mortality 19461948 | 519 |
A Dawning Awareness 19481951 | 570 |
Hunting Down the Unicorn 19511956 | 630 |
The WhoreVirgin and the Wounded | 695 |
Lightning Stroke and Thunder Clap | 722 |
Notes | 771 |
Acknowledgments | 849 |
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