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Something to Say: W.C. Williams on Younger Poets (Hardcover)
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Something to Say: William Carlos Williams on Younger Poets collects
all of Williams' known writings-reviews, essays, introductions, and
letters to the editor-on the two generations of poets that followed
him, from Kenneth Rexroth and Louis Zukofsky to Robert Lowell and
Allen Ginsberg. What might have been a random collection of
occasional pieces achieves remarkable coherence from the singleness
of Williams' poetic vision: his belief that the secret spirit of
ritual, of poetry, was trapped in restrictive molds, and, if these
could be broken, the spirit would be able to live again in a new,
contemporary form. Only a revived clarity and accuracy in sight and
expression would enable the modern world to reform social order
which Williams saw in complete disarray. To resuscitate American
Poetry, Williams concentrated his efforts on the purification of
poetic speech-his American idiom-and on remaking the poetic line in
a new measure-his variable foot. And while his battles with his
contemporaries on these issues could be heated, he was always a
nurturing father to the young, "a useful presence," "a model and a
liberator." He told Ginsberg to pare down and economize, Roethke to
open up, and encouraged Lowell and Levertov to shake off poetic
conventions. But in all his emphasis on the poem as a made object
of concrete physicality or as a field of action, he would return
again and again to this basic advice to young writers: "The only
thing necessary is to have something to say when at last the
opportunity comes to say it."
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