Published in Italian by Marietti 1820, Cristina Giorcelli’s new book consists of a 27-page Introduction to Modernism and U.S. Modernism and 10 essays that present close readings of 13 poems (2 of them in their earlier and later version) by William Carlos Williams.
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My Excellency — With Jonathan Cohen & Gy Mirano at the Drama Book Shop, 266 West 39th Street, New York
The Drama Book Shop presents, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications, My Excellency: William Carlos Williams’s “Lost” Translation of Luis Rechani Agrait’s Masterpiece — With Jonathan Cohen & Gy Mirano — A Talkback, signing and live podcast recording.
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Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, edited by Rigoberto González, contains two poems by William Carlos Williams: “All the Fancy Things” and “The Poet and his Poems.”
Continue readingIslands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
In Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape (Viking 2021), a sort of world tour guide to wastelands that have reverted to a sort of wildness, Cal Flyn devotes a chapter to Paterson, NJ, that recalls her visit with the editor of Weird New Jersey to the ruins below the Falls where they encounter a lone inhabitant.
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