"Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams / Herbert Leibowitz.

  • Leibowitz, Herbert A.
Date:
2011
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Life and works of William Carlos Williams

Publication/Creation

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Physical description

xxix, 496 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-474) and index.

Contents

Poetry as biographical evidence -- Roots and branches of the family tree -- "Halfway to hell" -- Youthful fumblings -- Many loves -- A risqué liaison with the fabulous baroness -- Adventures in the skin trade -- Experimental breakthroughs -- The "strange phosphorus" of American history -- Revisiting the seductions of Europe -- Confronting the Great Depression -- New directions in a tumultuous decade -- Poetry, the mistress, and medicine, the wife -- The poet in a time of war -- The magnificent torso: Paterson -- The lion in winter.

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Williams)
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780374113292
  • 0374113297