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Tag Archives: reading
EIGHTEEN: TO ELSIE (pages 64-67)
Poem XVIII, anthologized as “To Elsie” is one of Williams’ best. In the video below (the whole of which is well worth watching) at about the 39 minute mark Williams reads the poem, and this is followed by a few … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, close reading, Howl, Lou Reed, reading, reading poetry, Spring and All, To Elsie, William Carlos Williams
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SEVENTEEN: A WEEK’S WORTH OF POEMS (pages 54-64)
Now come seven poems interrupted only by one page of prose, a continuation of the prose section we looked at in the previous entry. If we were to say something about these poems as a group the first thing to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cubism, John Ashbery, reading, reading poetry, Spring and All, William Carlos Williams
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SIXTEEN: THE IMAGINATION IS— (pages 48-54)
We’ve come to a prose section where Williams draws together all the points he’s brought up about the imagination, the work, and its relation to what we call “reality”. Let us sum up: Imagination is a “force”, an energy like … Continue reading
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Tagged close reading, reading, Spring and All, William Carlos Williams
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FIFTEEN: THE COURAGE TO BE INSPIRED (pages 45-48)
By now we can’t ignore Williams’ obsession—I don’t think that’s too strong a word—with vision, not just seeing, but physiological vision itself, and the relationship that a visual or a language artist forges between sight and engagement with the world … Continue reading
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Tagged reading, reading poetry, Spring and All, William Carlos Williams
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FOURTEEN: IN MY LIFE THE FURNITURE EATS ME (pages 38-45)
We’re up to poem IX and as with VIII we’ll look at the prose section that follows and then go back and reread it. Allen Ginsberg gives a nice reading of this poem. But the poem is not as clear … Continue reading
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Tagged Jackson Pollock, Juan Gris, Modernism, painting, reading, reading poetry, Spring and All, William Carlos Williams
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THIRTEEN: OF SPANIARDS AND MORGANS (pages 32-38)
By now we have noticed that the prose sections reiterate a small constellation of ideas about making art, how it relates to the all-important word “imagination”, how it connects to “life”, and how this new art is different than illusionistic … Continue reading
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Tagged Juan Gris, Modernism, painting, reading, reading poetry, Spring and All, William Carlos Williams
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TWELVE: THE ROSE IS OBSOLETE (pages 26-32)
We now turn from these rather uneasy pages to, in my view, some of the best prose pages and one of the best poems in the entire book. The prose that follows poem VI (page 26) elucidates the poem, marking … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Filreis, close reading, Cubism, Juan Gris, Modernism, reading, reading poetry, Rimbaud, Spring and All, The Rose is Obsolete, William Carlos Williams
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ELEVEN: A BLACK WIND (pages 19-26)
Next we have, for me, a few of the least impressive pages of the book, followed by some of the most impressive. Let’s start with the least.
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Tagged close reading, Fernando Pessoa, reading, reading poetry, Spring and All, William Carlos Williams
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TEN: FLIGHT TO THE CITY (pages 17-18)
Poem number IV merits its own entry. It is one of my favorites in the collection. Some readers may detect a sexual energy sublimated into it, with its orgasmic feeling of yearning and bursting into calm. The poem makes me think of … Continue reading
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Tagged close reading, great white way, Lunar Baedeker, Mina Loy, reading, reading poetry, Spring and All, William Carlos Williams
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NINE: FARMER, ARTIST, ANTAGONIST (pages 15-17)
As if anticipating my doubts, Williams titles the next section, “CHAPTER I” and it even has a subtitle. Are we going to properly begin now, if to begin is to start with the number one? Or is the “one” the … Continue reading