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Perhaps best known for her outstanding translation of Sappho, poet
Mary Barnard (1909 2001) has until recently received little
attention for her own work. In this book, Sarah Barnsley examines
Barnard s poetry and poetics in the light of her plentiful
correspondence with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and
others. Presenting Barnard as a late Imagist, Barnsley links
Barnard s search for a poetry grounded in native speech to efforts
within American modernism for new forms in the American grain.
Barnsley finds that where Pound and Williams began the campaign for
a modern poetry liberated from the heave of the iambic pentameter,
Barnard completed it through a spare but musical aesthetic derived
from her studies of Greek metric and American speech rhythms,
channeled through materials drawn direct from the American local.
The first book on Barnard, and the first to draw on the Barnard
archives at Yale s Beinecke Library, "Mary Barnard, American
Imagist" unearths a fascinating and previously untold chapter of
twentieth-century American poetry."
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