The Birth of the Imagination

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8263-5760-1
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 863 g

Reihe: Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics

William Carlos Williams first spoke to the issue of form shortly after the publication of ""The Wanderer"" in 1914 - his move to vers libre - and never stopped 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 practice 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holsapple, Bruce

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Holsapple works as a speech-language pathologist in central New Mexico, USA. He earned a PhD from SUNY Buffalo in 1991 and has published essays on William Carlos Williams, Charles Reznikoff, John Clarke, and Philip Whalen. He has published seven books of poetry, most recently Wayward Shadow.