The Birth of the Imagination: William Carlos Williams on Form

by Bruce Holsapple

William Carlos Williams first spoke to the issue of form shortly after the publication of The Wanderer in 1914--his move to vers libre--and didn't stop talking about form until his death in 1963. His poetry shows, decade after decade, persistent formal innovation. Bruce Holsapple's The Birth of the Imagination relates the form, structure, and content of Williams's poetry to demonstrate how his formal concerns bear upon the content, namely, how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826357601
• ISBN13: 9780826357601
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"