Correspondence of Jonathan Williams to John Furnival
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Author | : Jeffery Beam |
Publisher | : Easton Studio Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1632260883 |
Jonathan Williams’ work of more than half a century is such that no one activity or identity takes primacy over any other—he was the seminal small press publisher of The Jargon Society; a poet of considerable stature; book designer; editor; photographer; legendary correspondent; literary, art, and photography critic and collector; early collector and proselytizer of visionary folk art; cultural anthropologist and Juvenalian critic; curmudgeon; happy gardener; resolute walker; and keen and adroit raconteur and gourmand. Williams’ refined decorum and speech, and his sartorial style, contrasted sharply, yet pleasingly, with his delight in the bawdy, with his incisive humor and social criticism, and his confidently experimental, masterful poems and prose. His interests raised “the common to grace,” while paying “close attention to the earthy.” At the forefront of the Modernist avant-garde—yet possessing a deep appreciation of the traditional—Williams celebrated, rescued, and preserved those things he described as, “more and more away from the High Art of the city,” settling “for what I could unearth and respect in the tall grass.” Subject to much indifference—despite being celebrated as publisher and poet—he nurtured the nascent careers of hundreds of emerging or neglected poets, writers, artists, and photographers. Recognizing this, Buckminster Fuller once called him “our Johnny Appleseed”, Guy Davenport described him as a “kind of polytechnic institute,” while Hugh Kenner hailed Jargon as “the Custodian of Snowflakes” and Williams as “the truffle-hound of American poetry.” Lesser known for his extraordinary letters and essays, and his photography and art collecting, he is never only a poet or photographer, an essayist or publisher. This book of essays, images, and shouts aims to bring new eyes and contexts to his influence and talent as poet and publisher, but also heighten appreciation for the other facets of his life and art. One might call Williams’ life a poetics of gathering, and this book a first harvest.
Author | : John Furnival |
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Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Greg Thomas |
Publisher | : Liverpool English Texts and St |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1789620260 |
This book considers the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s-1970s,focusing on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Bob Cobbing. It will be a vital resource for students andscholars of modernism, intermedia art and British literature.
Author | : Ian |
Publisher | : Bitter Lemon Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1908524359 |
The revealing letters of probably the most significant Scottish public intellectual and artist of the late 20th century.
Author | : Ian Hamilton Finlay |
Publisher | : Bitter Lemon Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1908524731 |
These letters to (and from) Finlay’s friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned ‘Little Sparta’. They cover Finlay’s turn away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design, and the thinking behind, and consequences of, this development.
Author | : Anne Dewey |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2013-05-15 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1609381505 |
With friendship as an optic, the essays in this volume offer important new insights into the gender politics of the poetic avant-garde, since poetry as an institution has continued to be transformed by dramatic changes wrought by second-wave feminism, sexual liberation, and gay rights. These essays reveal the intimate social negotiations that fight, fracture, and queer the conventions of authority and community that have long constrained women poets and the gendering of poetic subjectivities. From this shared perspective, the essays collected here investigate a historically and aesthetically wide-ranging array of subjects: from Joanne Kyger and Philip Whalen's trans-Pacific friendship, to Patti Smith's grounding of her punk persona in the tension between her romantic friendships with male artists and her more professional connections to the poets of the St.
Author | : Howard A. Norman |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Author | : Joann Cerrito |
Publisher | : New York : St. James Press |
Total Pages | : 1364 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781558621831 |
A thorough overview on more than 830 modern artists.
Author | : Colin Naylor |
Publisher | : Chicago : St. James Press |
Total Pages | : 1088 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
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