Mary Barnard, American Imagist

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143 Notes Chapter One. “Spare but Musical”: The Poetry of Mary Barnard 1. Mary Barnard, journal, 1932, marked in pencil “Mary Ethel Barnard, Reed,” one of two sets (manufacturer: Chief. Student’s Note Book No. 639), Mary Barnard Papers, provided by Elizabeth J. Bell, literary executor to the estate of Mary Barnard, Vancouver, Washington. 2. Barnard, Assault on Mount Helicon, 15. 3. Mary Barnard to Ezra Pound, letter, October 11, 1933, Ezra Pound Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 4. Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro,” in Personae, 111. 5. Mary Barnard to Emily Grosholz, letter, January 8, 1989, Mary Barnard Papers, provided by Elizabeth J. Bell. Grosholz was a poet and advisory editor at The Hudson Review at the time this letter was written. 6. Ezra Pound to Mary Barnard, second letter of two, August 13, 1934, Mary Barnard Papers, provided by Elizabeth J. Bell. 7. Ezra Pound to Mary Barnard, letter, November 28, 1934, Mary Barnard Papers, provided by Elizabeth J. Bell. 8. Barnard, Assault on Mount Helicon, 27. 9. Barnard, poetry reading. Recording provided by Thomas J. Donovan, Latin professor at the University of Portland and long-term friend of Barnard. 10. Barnard, Assault on Mount Helicon, 280. 11. Ibid. Italics Barnard’s. 12. Ibid., 282. 13. Ibid. 14. Ibid. 15. Flint, “Imagisme,” 199. Ezra Pound’s essay “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” appeared immediately after Flint’s essay, 200–206. 144 / Notes to Chapter One 16. Mary Barnard, “Shoreline,” 255. Subsequent references to “Shoreline” are to the version as it was first published in this particular volume of Poetry; Barnard later omitted “The smudged odor/ . . . Stains as with color the salt stench of the sea,” increasing the staccato rhythm, I think. In her early poems, Barnard used capital letters to start every line, a practice she had dropped by the time she published Collected Poems in 1979. 17. Ezra Pound, “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste,” Poetry 1, no. 6 (March 1913), 200–206: p. 200. 18. Barnard, “North Window,” dated February 4, 1936, in Barnard’s hand, Mary Barnard Papers, provided by Elizabeth J. Bell. 19. H.D., Sea Garden, 41. 20. Ibid., 20. 21. Ibid., 1. 22. Aldington, “A Young American Poet,” 23. 23. Flint, “The Poetry of H.D.,” 72. 24. For this insight I am indebted to Dr. Eric White, Oxford Brookes University. 25. Viola Baxter Jordan to Mary Barnard, letter, April 8, 1948, Mary Barnard Papers, provided by Elizabeth J. Bell. 26. Williams, “Spring and All,” Selected Poems, 45. 27. Wilson, “American Writing: 1941.” 28. Barnard, journal, 1932. 29. Barnard, “Creed,” preface to “The Horae of Mary Ethel Barnard.” 30. Williams, “Against the Weather,” 1939, in Selected Essays, 212. 31. Mary Barnard quoted by Jane Van Cleve, “Hearing Sappho,” copy courtesy of the Mary Barnard Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 32. Carlson, Contemporary Northwest Writing, 3. 33. William Carlos Williams to Louis Zukofsky, letter, April 21, 1936, in Ahearn, The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky, 232. 34. James Laughlin to Mary Barnard, letter, July 27, 1978, Mary Barnard Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature. 35. Until this book, the only published criticism that placed Barnard at the center was the Spring 1994 special edition of Paideuma and my own essays in Paideuma and Western American Literature. 36. O’Hara Ewing, “The Poetry of Mary Barnard,”—67. O’Hara Ewing is reiterating an observation made by Valerie Trueblood in 1982. See Trueblood, review of Collected Poems by Mary Barnard, 10–11. 37. The newly catalogued Mary Barnard Papers include manuscripts of poetry , prose, and nonfiction (both unpublished and published), correspondence with editors and poets (including James Laughlin, Marianne Moore, Ezra and Dorothy Pound, May Sarton, and William Carlos Williams), travel journals, and photographs, as well as first editions of many of her works. For more information, visit http:// beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/mary-barnard-papers/. 38. D. D. Paige to Mary Barnard, letter, November 3, 1950, Mary Barnard Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature. 39. John Crowe Ransom to Mary Barnard, letter, September 3, 1941, Mary Barnard Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature. Notes to Chapter One / 145 40. Theodore Purdy to Mary Barnard, letter, September 27, 1938, Mary Barnard Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature. 41. Ibid. 42. William Carlos Williams...