I Wanted to Write a Poem. The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet. Reported and Edited by Edith Heal

WILLIAMS, William Carlos

ISBN 10: 0811207072 / ISBN 13: 9780811207072

Verlag: New Directions Book, (New York), 1978

Beschreibung

Fourth printing. Trade paperback. Lacking the half-title and title pages, spine cocked, a good only copy. New Directions Paperbook, NDP469.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 460268

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: I Wanted to Write a Poem. The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet. Reported and Edited by Edith Heal
• Verlag: New Directions Book, (New York)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1978
• ISBN-10: 0811207072
• ISBN-13: 9780811207072
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Good

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Subtitled "The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet," this unique volume was the result of a series of informal conversations in the mid-1950s between Dr. Williams, his wife, and Edith Heal, then a student at Columbia University. In the relaxed atmosphere of the Williams home in Rutherford, New Jersey, the three discussed, chronologically, the poet's works as collected on his very own library shelves. "There was an air of discovery about the whole procedure," Miss Heal writes in her introduction, "the poet's excited 'Why I'd forgotten this dedication, ' the unexpected appearance of reviews that had been tucked away in the pages of the books, pencilled corrections in the text, scrawled first drafts on prescription blanks." I Wanted to Write a Poem is, then, a brief "talking" bibliography, alive with the Williamses' memories of the circumstances in which the books were brought into being--in Miss Heal's words, "a nostalgic review of the early twentieth-century literary world."

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.