āNot after the establishment, but speaking straight ahead.ā This is how William Carlos Williams referred to his own forthrightness as well as his practice of using only American speech patterns in his poems. InĀ
Interviews with William Carlos Williams, Linda Wagner of the English Department, Michigan State University, has assembled Dr. Williamsās most important public statements. The first section, entitled simply āInterviews,ā reproduces in toto three in-depth conversations, revealing Dr. Williamsās humor, vitality, and American-ness, as he discusses his theories of poetic meter and diction, his opinions of such contemporaries as Pound and Eliot, and his view of his own role in shaping the course of modern American poetry. The second section, āDialogues,ā is arranged alphabetically by subject heading. Here are recorded the poetās thoughts on topics from āArtā to āWomen.ā The third and final part of
Interviews with William Carlos Williams, āMemoirs and Miscellany,ā includes the touching account of a visit to the Williamses by artist Gael Turnbull in 1958. Also reprinted are two of Dr. Williamsās best expositions of his own poetic techniques, āThe American Idiotā and āHow to Writeāāāessays which appeared in early New Directions anthologies but have been generally unavailable since. This valuable collection of comments āfor the recordā is annotated and includes an index.
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