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<p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The rose is obsolete <br>
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an edge, the double facet <br>
cementing the grooved <br>
columns of air &#8211; The edge <br>
cuts without cutting <br>
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meets &#8211; nothing &#8211; renews <br>
itself in metal or porcelain <span class=GramE>&#8211;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160; </span></span><br>
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whither? It ends &#8211;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160; </span><br>
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But if it ends <br>
the start is begun <br>
so that to engage roses <br>
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Sharper, neater, more cutting <br>
figured in majolica &#8211;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160; </span><br>
the broken plate <br>
glazed with a rose <br>
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Somewhere the sense <br>
makes copper roses <br>
steel roses &#8211;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160; </span><br>
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The rose carried weight of love <br>
but love is at an end &#8211; of roses <br>
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It is at the edge of the <br>
petal that love waits <br>
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Crisp, worked to defeat <br>
<span class=SpellE>laboredness</span> &#8211; fragile <br>
plucked, moist, half-raised <br>
cold, precise, touching <br>
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What <br>
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The place between the petal's <br>
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From the petal's edge a line starts <br>
that being of steel <br>
infinitely fine, infinitely <br>
rigid penetrates <br>
the Milky Way <br>
without contact &#8211; lifting <br>
from it &#8211; neither hanging <br>
nor pushing &#8211;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160; </span><br>
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The fragility of the flower <br>
<span class=SpellE>unbruised</span> <br>
penetrates space <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Every couple of years, right about this time, I find myself drawn to rereading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Spring &amp; All, </i>William Carlos Williams&#8217; 1923 volume of verse linked with critique &#8211; today we might say theory &#8211; that in almost all respects was not only his first &#8220;great book,&#8221; but the very best writing of his career. It includes the poems that made him legitimately famous &#8211; &#8220;The red wheel barrow,&#8221; &#8220;By the road to the contagious hospital,&#8221; &#8220;The pure products of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>,&#8221; and the two poems that I tend to think of as the best he ever wrote &#8211; &#8220;The rose is obsolete&#8221; and &#8220;What about all this writing?&#8221; The book originally was published in an edition of 300 by Contact Press &amp; basically sank like a stone, never to be heard of again until Harvey Brown published a facsimile edition in 1970, some 47 years later, when it was <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>still the most radical book of poetry I&#8217;d ever seen. </i>(Actually, the last time I read this book was just last summer, but it holds up to <span class=SpellE>rereadings</span> the way <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Lear </i>or <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Macbeth </i>do. I can&#8217;t imagine not seeing something new no matter how many times I read the book.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The poems are interspersed throughout the critical text. Its first assertion &#8211; that the fundamental impulse behind all traditional writing is plagiarism &#8211; has always struck me as unassailable, even obvious. But Williams&#8217; second assertion &#8211; that what one represents in the poem is the imagination &#8211; has always made me feel uneasy. His insistence upon it is central:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>(W<span class=GramE>)e</span> are beginning to discover the truth that in great works of the imagination A CREATIVE FORCE IS SHOWN AT WORK MAKING OBJECTS WHICH ALONE COMPLETE SCIENCE AND ALLOW INTELLIGENCE TO SURVIVE<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>or</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>When in the condition of imaginative suspense only will the writing have reality . . .<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160; </span>&#8211; Not to attempt, at that time, to set values upon the word being used, according to presupposed measures, but to write down that which happens at that time &#8211; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>To perfect the ability to record at the moment when the consciousness is enlarged by the sympathies and the unity of understanding which the imagination gives, to practice skill in recording the force moving, then to know it, in the largeness of its proportions &#8211; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>It is the presence of a<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>This is not &#8220;fit&#8221; but a unification of experience<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>That is, the imagination is an actual force comparable to electricity or steam, it is not a plaything but a power that has been used from the first to raise the understanding of &#8211; it is not necessary to resort to mysticism &#8211; In fact it is this which has kept back the knowledge I seek &#8211; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>The value of the imagination to the writer consists in its ability to make words. Its unique power is to give created forms reality, actual existence<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>This separates<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images. I have experienced that to my sorrow. It is not a conscious recording of the day&#8217;s experiences &#8220;freshly and with the appearance of reality&#8221; &#8211; This thing is seriously to the development of any ability in a man, it fastens him down, makes him a &#8211; It destroys, makes nature an accessory to the particular theory he is following, it blinds him to his world, &#8211; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>A word detached from the necessity of recording it, sufficient to itself, removed from him (as it most certainly is) with which he has bitter and delicious relations and from which he is independent</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> &#8211; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>moving at will from one thing to another</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> &#8211; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>as he pleases, unbound</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> &#8211; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;ont-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>and</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> the unique proof of this is the work of the imagination not &#8220;like&#8221; anything but transfused with the same forces which transfuse the earth</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> &#8211; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>at least one small part of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Nature is the hint to composition not because it is familiar to us and therefore the terms we apply to it have a least common denominator quality
which gives them currency</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> &#8211; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>but because it possesses the quality of independent existence, of reality which we feel in ourselves. It is not opposed to art but apposed to it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>I suppose Shakespeare&#8217;s familiar aphorism about holding the mirror up to nature has done more harm in stabilizing the copyist tendency of the arts among us than</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> &#8211; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>the</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> mistake in it (though we forget that it is not S. speaking but an imaginative character of his) is to have believed that the reflection of nature is nature. It is not. It is only a sham nature, a &#8220;lie.&#8221; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Of course S. is the most conspicuous example desirable of the falseness of this very thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>He holds no mirror up to nature but with his imagination rivals nature&#8217;s composition with his own.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>He himself becomes &#8220;nature&#8221;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> &#8211; continuing &#8220;its&#8221; marvels &#8211; if you will</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It occurs to me that one could learn all one needs to know of writing just by typing up this book, phrase by phrase, line by line. It occurs to me also that this is the template, in tone if not in exact architecture, for Robert Grenier&#8217;s infamous essay &#8220;ON SPEECH,&#8221; which would appear within the year of the Frontier Press republication. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>But what precisely does Williams mean by imagination? Does he intend &#8211; I seriously doubt it &#8211; the same facility through which a child spins out so many nonsense syllables, as if speech itself were but a game? <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The works that come through the imagination do not speak of the world &#8211; a belief in the possibility of which proves fatal to all political poetry, also all love poetry, also poetry about dogs and cats. That is because, says Williams, works of art, if they are not a &#8220;sham&#8221; or &#8220;&#8217;lie&#8217;,&#8221; do not speak of the world. Indeed, they do not speak <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>of. </i>Rather they are themselves in the world, on a par with the writer, and with the world itself, not to mention wars, love, cats &amp; dogs. The poem, even if it is a great one, is no better than a dog in that each is real. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The imagination, as defined by Williams, uses words, but is not to be confused with them. Rather, its unique power is to &#8220;make words.&#8221; It has taken  me years, decades in fact, to realize that imagination, as William 
Carlos Williams employs the term, can only be language. <span class=GramE>Or more accurately <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>langue, </i>tho not <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>parole</i>.</span> That dimension of language that exists only &#8211; and always &#8211; as its potential, the entire system &amp; never an instance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This is what separates<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Which makes cats &amp; dogs &amp; the infinite varieties of red.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <span class=GramE>Which determines the exact border between blue and green, which, although it is hard &amp; fast, is in fact different for each one of us, a shade to the left or to the right.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Watching <span class=GramE>Williams</span> talk of language without a vocabulary for it falls into one of the primary fault lines of modernism, when all of the elements of a linguistic science were starting to come together, but did not yet fully exist. The great tragedy of James Joyce was his reliance on philology, on the 19<sup>th</sup> century discipline of word roots &amp; origins, with which to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">mount</st1:PlaceType>
 <st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Finnegan</i></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>&#8217;s Wake. </i><span class=GramE>Pound translating from an imaginary Chinese.</span> <span class=GramE>H.D. in Freud&#8217;s care, imagining him as a fellow researcher.</span> Zukofsky&#8217;s flirtation with Basic English. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>But Williams, like Stein, fundamentally gets it. Though he almost undoubtedly never read a word of Saussure, he writes like someone who has. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>What then is imagination?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>More to the point, what is it that Williams, in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Spring &amp; All, </i>his finest work, is telling us about the role of imagination, of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>langue, </i>in the poem?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>That it is the duty of the poem to make <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>langue </i>visible, perceptible, so vivid you can taste the salt on its surface, can hear its hum. That, he is arguing, is the poem&#8217;s only duty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><img height="399" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/T5Wthf3gwB5lv4PvH3dbLZ5BIzP4Qu8e4RcWBSq0l3ISkURsA3l8icLpJW7Ct-YLUzwLiKGErZLDkQDcp56uBs00bemQX3EZTT5Y%3Ds0-d" width="587"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>Not the School of Quietude: Williams with cat, Rutherford, NJ, 1916</span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
(Front row, L-R: Alison <span class=SpellE>Hartpence</span>, <span class=SpellE>Afred</span> <span class=SpellE>Kreymborg</span>, WCW, Skip <span class=SpellE>Cannell</span><br>
Back row, L-R: Jean <span class=SpellE>Crotti</span>, Marcel Duchamp, Walter <span class=SpellE>Arensberg</span>, <br>
Man Ray, R.A. Sanborn, Maxwell <span class=SpellE>Bodenheim</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Billy Joe Harris notes &#8211; and is quite right &#8211; that <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Spring &amp; All </i>is printed in its entirety in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100381790"><span style='color:black'>The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volume I (1909-1939)</span></a> </i>edited by A. Walton <span class=SpellE>Litz</span> &amp; Christopher <span class=SpellE>MacGowan</span>, and that this version doesn&#8217;t have any of the crowded page disadvantages that render <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Imaginations </i>unnecessarily reader unfriendly. It&#8217;s also worth noting that it&#8217;s a good looking book, always a bit of a miracle at New Directions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Descent of Winter, </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Williams&#8217; prose &amp; verse linked diary &#8211; I doubt that he knew the word <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haibun"><span style='color:black'>haibun</span></a> &#8211; is also included in this volume. Unfortunately, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Kora in Hell: Improvisations, </i>the third volume of poetry from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Imaginations, </i>is not. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Kora </i>appears to be out of print in its City Lights Pocket Poets edition as well. Like the Frontier Press edition of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Spring &amp; All, </i>the 1958 City Lights edition is the one that had a dramatic impact on my generation of poets. It&#8217;s still hard to find a book of prose poems as radical as this one Williams penned in 1920. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.kessinger.net/searchresults-orderthebook.php?Author=Williams,+William+Carlos#1"><span style='color:black'>Kessinger Editions</span></a> of Whitefish, </span><st1:State> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Montana</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, a publisher of rare book reprints, has however republished <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Kora. </i>Kessinger has also published three other early <span class=GramE>Williams</span> volumes: <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sour Grapes </i>(the book immediately prior to <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Spring &amp; All</i>)<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>, Al <span class=SpellE>Que</span> <span class=SpellE>Quiere</span>, </i>and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Tempers. </i><span class=GramE>In short, all of Williams&#8217; work that is now in the public domain.</span> This doesn&#8217;t solve my problem with the lack of a stand-alone <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Spring &amp; All, </i>and I haven&#8217;t seen these editions, so I can&#8217;t tell you how well or badly they&#8217;ve been done. But I&#8217;m very glad to see that they exist. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Somebody who signs him- or herself as Barnes &#8211; I have a few cousins with that surname &#8211; wrote in yesterday&#8217;s comments stream:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Aside from the comic way it&#8217;s  raised, that&#8217;s a perfectly legit question. A click on the link in the poem&#8217;s title would have brought Barnes, or anyone else, to the full text as I was reading it yesterday morning on the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Academy</span></st1:PlaceType><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>American Poets</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> website. Doing so reminded me that this has always been a favorite <span class=GramE>Williams</span> poem of mine, and the stanza I reproduced on my own site is the reason why. Published seven years ahead of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Spring &amp; All, </i>the moment I always think of as the real start of Williams&#8217; mature writing, &#8220;A Love Song&#8221; is one of the earliest signs of the great poet yet to come.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Narratively, the poem is not that difficult. A man&#8217;s lover has departed. He contemplates the residual stain &#8211; what my generation has tended to call &#8220;the wet spot&#8221; tho further on it appears possibly to be some residual semen shining still upon his own &#8220;horned branches&#8221; &#8211; and thinks of her, wondering if he will ever see her again. Or see her again in just this way. The act itself, figured in that stain, makes everything in the world seem far more lucid, even hallucinatory. Williams takes this idea &amp; just runs with it. Some 50 years after this poem was written, people would begin talking of such reactions as &#8220;a heightened state of awareness.&#8221; It certainly is that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>For a man who made a lifelong  reputation for himself as a love poet on the basis of his poems for his wife, </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Florence</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> &#8220;Floss&#8221; Herman Williams, WCW also wrote, repeatedly and at some length, of his many trysts with others. At the time of &#8220;A Love Song,&#8221; he and Floss had been married for four years. Is this a poem about her? Does anyone <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>really</i> think so? Ambiguity will let you do a lot of things &amp; Williams is one of the best at exploiting its potential. This reminds me of nothing so much as John Lennon&#8217;s comment that songs like &#8220;Norwegian Wood&#8221; were a way of writing about his times with other women without upending his marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>And for a poet who, some 16 or 20 years after this poem was written, would be associated with the neo-Marxian Objectivist poets, and functionally a scientist to a degree that any medical doctor is, Williams is also a writer who greatly trusts the irrational, what I would actually prefer to call, as here, the <span class=SpellE>transrational</span>. Making sense is not one of the critical requirements of verse &#8211; indeed it far too often just gets in the way of a much more direct treatment of our feelings &amp; sensations. In the name of Ezra Pound&#8217;s only dicta for how to write, &#8220;direct treatment of the thing&#8221; is very often the exact opposite of treating it objectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I love the reiteration here of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>yellow <span class=SpellE>yellow</span> <span class=SpellE>yellow</span> </i>&#8211; that&#8217;s the moment when the poem really abandons any literal sense of narrative reality&#185; &amp; Williams discusses exactly the impact of this sense and how it transforms the material world. That is the function of this stanza &amp; it seems to me one of the elemental tasks not just of love &amp; sex, but of poetry as well. Poems read with too much concern as to &#8220;what the hell does it mean&#8221; will always miss at least half of life, maybe much <span class=SpellE>much</span> more. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#185; Why yellow, which is hardly the color of semen? Is it the room, the light at that time of day, the color of the sheets or walls? We&#8217;ll never know, but the specificity of the color is as important as the fact that Williams did <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>not</b> write <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>off-white <span class=SpellE>off-white</span> <span class=SpellE>off-white</span>. </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was reading an Allen
Curnow poem from the early 1960s, &#8220;A Small Room with Large Windows,&#8221;* when the prosody
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A
kingfisher&#8217;s naked arc alight<br />
<span class="GramE">Upon</span> a dead stick in the mud<br />
A scarlet geranium wild on a wet bank<br />
A man stepping it out in the near distance<br />
With a dog and a bag<br />
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On a wire in a mist<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>a gannet
impacting<br />
Explode a dozen diverse <span class="SpellE">dullnesses</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This passage, by no means
Curnow&#8217;s best, stood out in contrast to the section immediately preceding,
which carried an AABBCC&#8230; rhyme scheme, a relatively rare occurrence for the
late </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">New
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poet. I like the prosody here, even if words such as &#8220;naked&#8221; &amp; &#8220;dead&#8221; in
the first two lines appear to have been inserted solely for the sake of sound. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I can</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hear it</i> &#8211; the music of this passage reaches me just fine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Which reminded me of how
seldom this is the case for me with poets from English-speaking countries other
than the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">United
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With the very notable exception of Basil Bunting, I find there to have been
shockingly few poets from the old Commonwealth on either side of the equator
whose work I would characterize as having a strong ear. More often than not, I
can&#8217;t hear it at all, not even in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hopkins</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8217; so-called sprung rhythms. Whatever the other values
the poem might propose &#8211; &amp; often enough they are many &#8211; the prosody of so <span class="GramE">much non-Yank</span> Anglophone verse strikes me as jumbled,
prosaic, &#8220;a dozen diverse <span class="SpellE">dullnesses</span>.&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are of course
exceptions, but I notice how many of them are poets who seem to have taken a
particular interest in the American tradition of poetry &#8211; </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tom Raworth</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Thomas A. Clark, Fred <span class="SpellE">Wah</span>,
Jill Jones, Lee Harwood, <span class="GramE">Gerry</span> <span class="SpellE">Shikatani</span>.
Yet the whole idea of poetry&#8217;s relationship to spoken English &#8211; &amp; through
speech to sound &#8211; is one that invariably leads back to Wordsworth &amp;
Coleridge. This makes me wonder if there isn&#8217;t some disability within me that
just can&#8217;t hear it, whatever &#8220;it&#8221; might in this instance be, rather like the
Kansan watching a British film with </span><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">North Country</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">
accents who longs for subtitles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I also wonder if there isn&#8217;t
something specific about </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> verse &amp; its history that isn&#8217;t turned toward
sound &amp; might not be peculiarly tuned to the tones &amp; rhythms of speech
&#8211; at least of American dialects. While Whitman clearly had some desire to
relate his writing to speech, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dickinson</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> had a more charged push-pull relationship towards
the possibility. In fact, the often intrusive editing that her work received
can be viewed as an attempt to normalize her poetry on a model more
identifiable as speech. Pound &amp; Stein likewise bring their own strong sense
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">melopoiea </i>to the party<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>though incommensurate with one
another&#8217;s. Where Stein often seeks <span class="GramE">a cubism</span> of the
ear, Pound&#8217;s remarkable prosody turns on a wide range of models, from Beowulf
to the Bible, proposing speech as such usually as satire: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span class="SpellE">doan</span> you think he chop an&#8217; change all the time<br />
stubborn <span class="SpellE">az</span> a mule, <span class="SpellE">sah</span>,
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Something Josephine Miles
once said to David Melnick &amp; myself jumps out at me here. Recalling William
Carlos Williams&#8217; poetry in the 1930s &amp; &#8216;40s, she noted that she could not &#8211;
these were her words &#8211; &#8220;hear him,&#8221; she and her friends had no idea how to read
those texts that today seem so self-evidently the paradigm for spoken English.
The very features of his verse that today seem so obvious as to be boring &#8211; a
level of acceptance that has come to hurt Williams&#8217; reputation &#8211; were in fact
impenetrably opaque not that long ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In fact, in spite of his own
critical comments, these features may have been somewhat opaque to Williams as
well. Robert Creeley, one of the first to recognize Williams&#8217; poetry as an
apotheosis of transcribed speech, has commented on how surprised he was to
discover that Williams himself did not respect his linebreaks when reading the
poems in public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Olson in theory took care of
that. With the Projectivists proposing a hard or rigorous version &amp; the New
York School and the Beats offering &#8220;soft&#8221; ones, U.S. poets from the 1960s
onward have had a ready toolkit available for what speech might look like
translated into line &amp; stanza. &amp; for the past 20-odd years, these have
been supplemented by a variety of post-avant text strategies intended to
problematize a too simplistic one-to-one correlation, ranging from sound poetry
at one extreme to visual poetics at another<span class="GramE">.*</span>* What these
various interventions have not done is to add significantly to the prosodic
vocabulary of the poem.*** The number &amp; potential combination of sounds in
English is not infinite, even though the number of possible meanings &amp;
utterances is. Thus the elaboration and expansion of poetic forms over the past
30 years, impressive as it has been, has not been accompanied by much in the
way of a new cadence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The limits of prosody are a
major motivator behind the technological augmentation of poetry, substituting a
divergence in lieu of an advance. To paraphrase Robert Grenier, all
technologies say the same thing: <span class="SpellE"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hummmm</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i> The
margins of poetry have been littered with attempts at expanding the terrain of
verse at least since Hugo Ball and the Russian <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">zaum </i>poets aimed at writing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">beyond
language</i>, but to date no one seems to have noticed that such projects age
at an accelerated rate, moving from startling to quaint in something less than
30 years. This difficulty is not coincidental and promises only to get worse
the more closely it attaches itself to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Moore</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8217;s Law<span class="GramE">.+</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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phenomenon is that books that do think seriously about the question of poetic
sound, such as Charles Bernstein&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Close
Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word </i>(Oxford, 1998) or Stephen <span class="SpellE">Ratcliffe&#8217;s</span> particularly excellent <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Listening to Reading </i>(SUNY, 2000), have yet to tackle the problem
of prosody as it impacts the relative impenetrability of different variants of
English. It may be easy enough, outside of <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_10_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2383008848">Boontling</a>,
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but the minute you cross national borders it patently is a problem of another
order, a larger &amp; radically different context. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Close Listening, </i>the essays that do focus on the poetics of
specific communities do so in terms <span class="GramE">that are</span> more
social than linguistic, with the pointed exception of Dennis <span class="SpellE">Tedlock&#8217;s</span> &#8220;Toward a Poetics of Polyphony and
Translatability.&#8221; </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nick
 Piombino</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Marjorie
Perloff and Bruce Andrews all consider the role of sound within different
sectors of the U.S. poetry community, but nobody appears able to consider the
possibility that a poem by </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tom Raworth</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;"> or
Allen Curnow, might mean something quite different in Oxford, UK, at the
Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver, at New College in San Francisco&#8217;s
Mission District, at the Iowa Writers Workshop, in Algiers, Louisiana, or at the
Northern tip of the Southern island of New Zealand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">** &#8220;Who
would have thought that fewer than forty years after Olson celebrated the &#8216;LINE&#8217;
as the embodiment of the breath, the signifier of the heart, the line would be
perceived as a boundary, a confining border, a form of packaging?&#8221; <span class="GramE">Marjorie Perloff, &#8220;After Free Verse,&#8221; in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word, </i>edited by Charles
Bernstein (</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oxford</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">, 1998), p. 99.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"> But that was exactly the condition
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">*** The two
writers who perhaps represent the most aggressive attempts to expand prosody
would probably be Ted Enslin with his endless (or very nearly so) variations on
the line in his long works from the 1970s and, somewhat more recently, Clark
Coolidge, whose sense of jazz rhythm, from bebop to <span class="SpellE">pomo</span>,
clearly informs his sense of line and stanza. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">+ In this
sense, the move away from something that is simply &#8220;the verse print bred&#8221; that
makes the most sense to me <span class="GramE">are</span> Grenier&#8217;s hand-lettered
<a href="http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&amp;d/grenier/lgrena00.htm">scrawl</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Patrick Herron almost always
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The presence of the quotidian in verse seems to
remain an essential and perhaps even distinguishing characteristic of what is
commonly lumped and labeled as "American" poetry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>We can find it in Whitman, Pound, Eliot
("hurry up please it's time"), O'Hara (who expands it to regularly
include personal names), Ginsberg, and especially Ron all over your work
("Nissan stanza" or "The beer can on the sidewalk had been
crushed flat" as two of perhaps thousands of examples).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Alan too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
</span>I was just reading one of <span class="SpellE">Kasey's</span> poems on <span class="SpellE">VeRT</span> and it was laden with almost paranoiac quotidian
statements, statements that should be shocking but just aren't.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I find myself using the web for finding and
co-opting quotidian text from time to time (similar to what is in <span class="SpellE">Kasey's</span> poem I'd guess).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
</span>But I don't understand why or what makes the quotidian <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">poetic</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
</span>Is it in the nominal grounding of the abstract, perhaps as some sort of
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Shklovsky somewhere talks
about how the aesthetic &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s how he identifies the
category, but it is how I remember it &#8211; always moves to incorporate all that is
on its fringe, rather like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Blob</i>.
Or imperialism. Put more positively: one of the duties of poetry is to
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For me, at least, this isn&#8217;t
about theory. I&#8217;ve written before about the importance of William Carlos
Williams&#8217; poem, &#8220;<a href="http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue4/text/prose/silliman1.htm">The Desert
Music</a>,&#8221; in shaping my recognition that I was to be a poet. While, in
retrospect, this is the most traditionally narrative of Williams&#8217; poems, it was
precisely its other elements &#8211; especially the depiction of the person sleeping
on the bridge &#8211; that enabled me at the age of 16 to &#8220;get&#8221; how poetry was
uniquely able to incorporate what Williams would have characterized as despised
materials, but which I would have identified (then &amp; now) as the
&#8220;invisible,&#8221; the background, the details that in fact make up the surfaces and
textures of daily life. It was exactly this capacity for what Patrick calls the
quotidian that brought me to poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had been writing since the
age of 10 in order, I realize now &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t have articulated it then &#8211; to
bring order to my world. Like more than a few other poets, I was raised in a
classically dysfunctional family &#8211; the 500 pound gorilla in our living room
that went unseen &amp; undiscussed was my grandmother&#8217;s mental illness &#8211; and
writing gave me not only a place to escape (although it did that also), but
critical tools I could not have found any other way as a pre-teen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, raised in a house
in which the only creative work around were four-to-a-volume <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Readers Digest Condensed Novels</i>, the
idea of poetry, let alone all its possibilities, was outside my field of vision
until I picked up that volume by Williams in the Albany Public Library sometime
around 1962. At that time, I was writing dreadful teenage fiction. I was under
the impression &#8211; and I&#8217;ve seen some of the responses to Patrick&#8217;s post on <span class="SpellE">ImitaPo</span> that reflect this position &#8211; that one was
constrained to craft novels around characters and action in order to get to
this &#8220;real&#8221; material, the so-called background detail. From my perspective, the
so-called elements of the &#8220;narrative drive&#8221; of a novel were really just an
excuse for enabling the author to incorporate what mattered most: these tiny
elements at the margins. The idea of a literature that could raise the
invisible up to the field of vision, in &amp; of itself, was a revelation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So for me, the quotidian, to
call it that (I never think of it as such), is not about adding a layer of
texture for the sake of enhancing a reality effect. The invisible or marginal
is not adjunct to the work: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it is the
work itself</i>. I want you to understand that dust bunny in the corner under
your desk. The whole of human history can be found there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But how that history is to
be discovered matters terribly. One of the primary objections I have to the
school of quietude is its grotesque sense of heroism, even when it&#8217;s a heroism
of everyday objects. A trowel is not a trope. This always seems to me a
fundamental dishonesty, a true violation of any pact with the reader, even with
the self. It&#8217;s a betrayal of the world of objects &amp; of the objective. Such
poetry is founded on precisely the dynamics that render the most critical
elements of the world invisible. So when I take exception to the writing of a
Robert Lowell or a Phil Levine or a Linda Gregg or an Alfred Corn, it&#8217;s really
an allegiance to that ten year old boy I once was to which I continue to stand
fast. I won&#8217;t betray him by creating a false world, a poetry of lies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Against this I would pose
Francis Ponge&#8217;s uses of the object as exemplary. His use of soap, his
elaboration of fauna. His insistence on the thingness of things. To this I
would add the thingness of words, their literal immanence, which is what I get
out of Stein and so much of the best writing of the past thirty years. This has
very little to do with any grounding of the abstract. Rather, I see it as an
issue of being present in my own life. This is how poetry matters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The fourth issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.poetry.org/">The
Electronic Poetry Review</a></i> is now live and includes a talk that I gave a
couple of years ago at the annual confab of the Modernist Studies Association, <a href="http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue4/text/prose/silliman1.htm">&#8220;The Desert
Modernism,&#8221;</a> focusing in part on the question of why William Carlos Williams
would have chosen to write a poem in 1951 that would lead to the famous, if
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As I so often do when
thinking about the history of poetry, I try to articulate a social context for
Williams&#8217; sense of isolation, which I do partly in terms of Objectivism:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">The early 1950s was the nadir of Objectivism.
Zukofsky, completing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">&#8220;A&#8221;</i> 12 in 1951,
would not touch the poem again until 1960. <i>Some Time</i>, Zukofsky's
gathering of his shorter works between 1940 and 1956, contains just 33 poems
for its seventeen years. In her bibliography of the composition of these works,
Zukofsky's wife Celia notes that, in 1954, the only poetry he wrote were two
sections of &#8220;Songs of Degrees,&#8221; one a nine-line valentine, the other &#8220;William /
Carlos / Williams // alive!&#8221; George Oppen hadn't written anything since 1934.
Charles Reznikoff was self-publishing and the collection <i>Inscriptions:
1944-1956</i> takes up only 30 pages in his <i>Complete Poems</i>. Lorine
Niedecker had published just one book and that with a publisher in <st1:place><st1:city>Prairie
  City</st1:city>, <st1:state>Illinois</st1:state></st1:place>; she would not
publish another until Ian Hamilton <span class="SpellE">Finlay</span> brought out
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Friend Tree</i> in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in 1961. &#8220;The Spoils,&#8221; which Basil Bunting wrote in 1951 was his first major
piece of poetry since 1935 and last until 1965. He wrote just three odes, as he
called his shorter poems, in the 1940s and none in the 1950s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The talk in general and this
passage in particular provoked a most interesting and thoughtful email from </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Eliot Weinberger</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, which he has kindly given permission for me to
reprint here. I don&#8217;t agree with everything he says but he&#8217;s got me pondering the
need to re-vision the 1950s in particular beyond the canonic box that is </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Don</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">ald Allen&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New American
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Along with the silence/invisibility of the
&#8220;objectivists,&#8221; you should add Rukeyser, who published no new books between
1948 and 1962. WCW told a depressed Reznikoff to keep writing, no matter what,
so <span class="SpellE">Rezi</span> wrote the novel &#8220;Manner Music.&#8221;</div>
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I think you underestimate the presence of Pound who,
though locked up, was writing a zillion letters a day and entertaining endless
visitors. It's also a period of the first standard editions of <span class="SpellE">Ez</span>: 1948, Cantos; 1949, Selected Poems; 1950, Letters;
1953, Translations; 1954, Literary Essays. Then in 1954 you have the Confucian
Odes and in 1955 Rock-Drill. He couldn't be more visible, however immobile.</div>
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I also wonder about WCW's isolation. If you look at
his letters and essays from the time, he's praising (and is in contact with) a
lot of poets: Lowell, Eberhart, Roethke, Rexroth, Harvey Shapiro, MacLeod,
etc-- besides the New Americans you mention (Creeley, Olson, Ginsberg) and the
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Also in the period you have Rexroth&#8217;s &#8220;Signature of
All Things,&#8221; &#8220;Dragon and the Unicorn&#8221; and &#8220;Beyond the Mt&#8221; (reviewed by WCW).
And Patchen had books from ND, Jargon, and the first City Lights pocket
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I'm as guilty as everyone else, maybe more guilty,
but I increasingly wonder whether we're all not prisoners of the <st1:personname>Don</st1:personname>
Allen taxonomy. The problem is that Allen overlooks a (small) sort-of
generation between the objectivists and the New <span class="SpellE">Amers</span>:
Rexroth, Rukeyser, Patchen, etc. And the anthology wars c. 1960 obscured
genuine affinities, at least in the early 50's. Lowell considered himself a <span class="SpellE">Poundian</span>; he loved WCW; everyone remembers his famous &#8220;raw
and the cooked&#8221; as referring to him and Ginsberg, but in fact, RL thought he
was one of the &#8220;raw,&#8221; compared to Wilbur etc. WCW and Roethke are not in
opposition, etc. It is forgotten that Origin was pitched on two poets: Olson
and Bronk, whom no one would put together any more. And the Allen obscured
genuine hostilities: Joel Oppenheimer used to tell about Beats and Black
Mountaineers getting into fistfights at the Cedar Tavern.</div>
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Is WCW in 1950-55 more isolated
aesthetically/personally than anyone else, or himself at any other time? Snyder
says somewhere that in the spiritual wasteland of the 50's one would hitchhike
a thousand miles just to have someone to talk to. Outside of a few small
groups-- like the SF <span class="SpellE">Ren</span> and the Black <span class="SpellE">Mteers</span> who were actually at Black Mt (unlike the <span class="SpellE">Blk</span> Mt group in Allen) and the inner-circle Beats-- how
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Could the proverbial Martian be able to sort the
poems c. 1950 of Levertov, Eberhart, Roethke, <st1:city><st1:place>Duncan</st1:place></st1:city>,
Rexroth, etc into &#8220;avant-garde&#8221; and &#8220;establishment&#8221;? Maybe there's a new
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