The birth of the imagination : William Carlos Williams on form
Bruce Holsapple (Author)
William Carlos Williams first spoke to the issue of form shortly after the publication of The Wanderer in 1914his move to vers libreand didn t stop talking about form until his death in 1963. His poetry shows, decade after decade, persistent formal innovation. Bruce Holsapple s The Birth of the Imagination relates the form, structure, and content of Williams s poetry to demonstrate how his formal concerns bear upon the content, namely, how form testifies to a vision that the style verifies. Tracing the development of Williams s work from Poems in 1909 through The Wedge in 1944, Holsapple aligns emerging aesthetic concepts and procedures with shifts in Williams s writing to disclose how meaning becomes refigured, affecting what the poems say. While focusing primarily on Williams s experimental works, including the novellas, this innovative study charts how significant features in Williams s poetry result from specific imaginative practices. -- Amazon.com
Print Book, English, 2016
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2016
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 415 pages ; 25 cm.
9780826357601, 9780826357618, 0826357601, 082635761X
945804183
Introduction: A life that is here and now
Growth of a poet's mind
The disjointing process, Kora in hell: improvisation
Getting from sentiment to form
Painting the wind
A renaissance twilight with triphammers
Imagining America
A new order of knowing
The verse line
Form, structure, and vernacular
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