William Carlos Williams: Selected Essays

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction XIII
4. I HEROES/ELDERS
5. Introduction to Penguin Selected Whitman 1
6. Hart Crane and the Private Judgment 13
7. The Letters of Hart Crane, Edited by Brom Weber 22
8. A Note on Ezra Pound 25
9. Why Pound!?! 28
10. The Release 30
11. William Carlos Williams: Selected Essays 34
12. A Character for Love 40
13. The Fact 44
14. Foreword to The Manuscripts and Letters of William Carlos Williams, by Neil Baldwin and Steven L. Meyers 48
15. "paradise/our/speech . . ." 50
16. Louis Zukofsky: All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958 54
17. A Note 58
18. All Ears Hear Here 66
19. For L.Z. 69
20. A Personal Note 72
21. A Note on Basil Bunting 75
22. Basil Bunting 78
23. H. D. 81
24. Here 83
25. II THE COMPANY
26. Introduction to The New Writing in the USA 87
27. Charles Olson: Y & X 97
28. Charles Olson: In Cold Hell, in Thicket 99
29. Preface to Mayan Letters, by Charles Olson 102
30. Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems, 1—10 104
31. Olson & Others: Some Orts for the Sports 106
32. Some Notes on Olson's Maximus 111
33. Introduction to Charles Olson: Selected Writings I 117
34. Introduction to Charles Olson: Selected Writings II 121
35. "A Foot Is to Kick With" 130
36. "An Image of Man . . .": Working Notes on Charles Olson's Concept of Person 134
37. Charles Olson's Masterwork 147
38. "A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud" 150
39. "To disclose that vision particular to dreams" 152
40. Preface to Robert Duncan: A Descriptive Bibliography, by Robert J. Bertholf 155
41. "An intensely singular art" 158
42. Edward Dorn in the News 162
43. Edward Dorn's Geography 164
44. Preface to Selected Poems, by Edward Dorn 168
45. The New World 170
46. For Michael 177
47. Preface to Against the Silences, by Paul Blackburn 180
48. "How Is It Far If You Think It?" 183
49. III THE WRITING LIFE
50. Kenneth Patchen: Fables £s? Other Little Tales 187
51. A Note on Canadian Poetry 191
52. Canadian Poetry 1954 193
53. D. H. Lawrence: Studies in Classic American Literature 197
54. Witter Bynner: Journey with Genius 200
55. Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Guignol's Band & John Hawkes: The Goose on the Grave 202
56. "By God, Pomeroy, you here!" 205
57. Waiting for Godot 211
58. Ramón Sender: Two Novels 214
59. On Love 220
60. The Journals of Jean Cocteau 223
61. Kenneth Rexroth: In Defense of the Earth 227
62. Edward Dahlberg: The Sorrows of Priapus 230
63. Evergreen Review, Nos. 1 and 2 233
64. "To Build Castles in Spain" 236
65. "Her Service Is Perfect Freedom" 240
66. A New Testament 244
67. Ways of Looking 247
68. The Fascinating Bore 254
69. Preface to Sticks and Stones, by George Bowering 259
70. "Think what's got away..." 261
71. The Beat Voznesensky 268
72. Judson Crews 272
73. A Note for Thread and Fielding Dawson 273
74. A Note for Kenneth Irby 274
75. Frederick Eckman: The Epistemologa of Loss 276
76. A Note for These Poems... 278
77. Rainer Gerhardt: A Note 279
78. Introduction to Thongs, by Alex Trocchi 282
79. AM 284
80. Introduction to Krazy Katl The Unveiling & Other Stories, by Fielding Dawson 285
81. For Diane 287
82. Foreword to The Sterile Honeycomb, by Arthur Axelrod 289
83. Gee Gerry G... 291
84. Lew 293
85. A Note for Hilda Morley: A Blessing Outside Us 295
86. Foreword to Sojourner Microcosms, by Anselm Hollo 296
87. Introduction to The Manner Music, by Charles Reznikoff 297
88. Preface to Nolo Contendere, by Judson Crews 301
89. Preface to The Blind Receptionist and Other Poems, by Robert J. Richkin 303
90. Foreword to Running Grass: Poems 1970-1977, by Peter Levitt 305
91. Xmas as in Merry 307
92. Poetry of Commitment 310
93. First Prize 316
94. First Prize 319
95. Ted Berrigan's Death 323
96. William Corbett: Two Books 325
97. No Matter What: A Note for Collected Poems, by William Corbett 328
98. An Afterword to Splendide-Hôtel, by Gilbert Sorrentino 330
99. The Gentle on the Mind Number 333
100. With Crusoe, on Familiar Shores 336
101. Kenneth Koch's Selected Poems, 1950-1982 342
102. Gone Fishing 344
103. From the Language Poets 346
104. A True Poet 349
105. Preface to The Leafless American, by Edward Dahlberg 354
106. Foreword to The Collected Poems of Marsden Hartley 356
107. Foreword to Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction, by Martin Espada 360
108. IV ARTISTS
109. On the Road: Notes on Artists 8c Poets, 1950-1965 365
110. Divers Sentiments 377
111. René Laubiès: An Introduction 379
112. A Note on Franz Kline 381
113. Philip Guston: A Note 383
114. Harry Callahan: A Note 384
115. A Note 385
116. Feedback: "Contemporary Voices in the Arts" 386
117. John Chamberlain 391
118. Frank Stella: A Way to Go 393
119. "Mehr Licht . .." 399
120. Ecce Homo 402
121. Three Films 406
122. Bill the King 415
123. "Some Place Enormously Moveable": The Collaboration of Arakawa and Madeline H. Gins 419
124. Introduction to Larry Bell: New Work 430
125. Memories of John 432
126. My New Mexico 439
127. Jim Dine/Five Themes 446
128. Face It 453
129. Seeing Things: Preface to Scopophilia, by Gerard Malanga 455
130. Foreword to The Poet Exposed, Portraits by Christopher Felver 458
131. V AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND POETICS
132. A Note on the Objective 461
133. Notes for a New Prose 465
134. How to Write a Novel 470
135. To Define 473
136. A Dilemma 475
137. A Note 477
138. A Note on the Local 479
139. A Quick Graph 480
140. "Statement" for the Paterson Society 483
141. Why Bother? 484
142. A Sense of Measure 486
143. "Poems are a complex" 489
144. A Statement about the Poem "The Name" 491
145. Notes Apropos "Free Verse" 492
146. "I'm given to write poems" 496
147. The Black Mountain Review 505
148. The Writer's Situation 515
149. Writing 523
150. On the New Cultural Conservatism 537
151. The Creative 539
152. Inside Out 554
153. Foreword to Robert Creeley: An Inventory, 1945—1970, by Mary Novik 565
154. Last Night 567
155. Was That a Real Poem or Did You Just Make It Up Yourself? 571
156. A Note for Hello 579
157. Letter from Berlin 581
158. Berlin, Etc. 584
159. Form 590
160. Index 593
161. Backmatter 605