Word: william
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILLIAM FAULKNER once remarked: "An artist is a creature driven by demons. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies." It is an attitude shared by all who have discovered just how difficult it is to write one superlative poem and what bitter battles must be waged to keep poetry vital and relevant in an age when so much...
...Cantos; and the New York school was surreal and Dadaistic, or more adamantly colloquial and hortative, as in Ginsberg's "Howl." But these distinctions tended to blur as the groups began influencing one another. Behind them, unifying them, were the established voices of Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, William Carlos Williams, and even old Walt Whitman, whose emotional, plain-speaking idiom came to be idolized by many of the new poets...
...RESIDUAL YEARS by William Everson. 238 pages. New Directions...
This collection includes all of the poems written between 1934 and 1948 by William Everson, before he became the Dominican monk Brother Antoninus, under which name he now writes. Brother Antoninus writes about the book: "Its roots go back to the earth of the San Joaquin Valley, the substratum of my life, back to a happy marriage, inexorable incarceration in the Waldport Camp [a conscientious objector's prison], painful divorce, hopeful remarriage, and abrupt, disturbing separation-back to my love of nature and of woman, to a poetry of physical celebration and tortured sensuality; back, in a word...
...itself, and a soul. With his consciousness of poetry's epic and mythic nature, it is no wonder that Duncan's efforts to collect so much of living, thought and feeling into the world of one poem should be quite like Ezra Pound's Cantos and William Carlos Williams' Paterson. His concern, therefore, is most often with the poem itself, as in "Bending...