Mary Barnard, American Imagist

Index

167 Index “ABC of Metrics, An” (Gordon), 106 “Above the Dock” (Hulme), 24 “Against the Weather” (Williams), quoted, 7 Agee, James (1909–1955), poet, film critic, and novelist, 17 “Alba” (Pound), 45, 63 Alcestis Press, 128 Aldington, Hilda Doolittle. See H.D. Aldington, Richard, poet, 60–62, 129 Allen, Donald, editor, 16 A Lume Spento (Pound), 60 “America, Whitman and the Art of Poetry” (Williams), quoted, 93 “American Background, The” (Williams), quoted, 133 American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (Library of America), 135 American Prefaces, 2 Anchor Books, publishers, 89 Anderson, James, publisher, 30, 129, 136 Aphrodite, 66–68, 100, 119, 122–23 “Apparuit” (Pound), 99, 101 “April” (Pound), 69 Arnold, Bob, poet and literary executor of Cid Corman’s estate, 160n42 Arrow Editions, publishers, 10, 17, 37 Art of Versification, The (ed. Esenwein and Roberts), 94 Ash Wednesday (Eliot), 77 “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” (Williams), 111 At the Field’s End (O’Connell), 52 Autobiography of William Carlos Williams, The (Williams), 135 balanced line, as devised by Mary Barnard, 7–8, 108–11, 115, 117–20, 124 Barnard, Mary (1909–2001): adaption of poems to musical settings, 124–25; archives and literary estate, 5, 9, 20–21, 37, 59, 132, 141; attitude to feminism, 130–31; receives Elliston Award, 8; receives Levinson Award, 2, 8, 128; receives May Sarton Award, 20; receives Western States Book Award, 8; childhood, 30, 94; compared to H.D., 9, 36–37, 43–45, 49, 51, 57, 91, 96, 127–29; compared to Marianne Moore, 9, 56, 134; compared to William Carlos Williams, 8–9, 27–28, 56, 65, 70, 74–78, 80–81, 83, 86–88, 91, 109–16, 124–25, 132–34, 138–39; critical reception and reader reports, 9–10, 12, 37, 117, 136; effect of Great Depression on, 15–16, 59; 168 / Index Barnard, Mary (1909–2001) (continued) education at Reed College, 13–14, 23–25, 65–70; family background, 41; membership of Gawd-Awful Society, 23; studies in Greek, 3, 65, 94, 96–99, 129, 132, 136; illness, 2, 88; influence of Imagism on her work, 4, 5, 6, 8, 14, 19, 52, 67–70, 90–91, 120; influence of troubadour poets on her work, 52; meets E.E. Cummings, 20; meets Ford Madox Ford, 20; meets Marianne Moore, 20; meets William Carlos Williams, 20; meets T.C. Wilson, 20; mentioned by Ezra Pound to James Laughlin, 128; and Louis Zukofsky, 16; paintings and sketches, 29; influence of Pacific Northwest on her work, 6, 8, 12, 18, 27–57, 69–91, 100, 105, 110, 112, 132, 137–39; political views 15–16; work on prosody, 4, 7, 8, 15, 24, 46, 70, 93–125 (see also balanced line, Sapphics, and weighted syllable); sends poem to Marianne Moore, 66; research into archeoastronomy, 140; research into ethnobotany, 140; residence with family, 30; residence on Minetta Street (NYC), 15; residence in Vancouver condo, 30; influence of Sappho on her work, 36, 65–91; travels with father, 28, 32, 51–52, 79; travels to New York, 10, 52, 83, 106; travels to Italy, 2; works for Emergency Relief Administration, 15–16, 52; works as Poetry Curator, Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo (now University at Buffalo, The State University of New York), 2, 21, 52, 87, 114, 132; curates William Carlos Williams’ archive at Buffalo, 87; joins advisory board to Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 131. Letters: to James Anderson, 20, 136; to August Fruge, 33, 127, 129; to Suzanne Ila Gray, 13; to Germaine Greer, 131; to H.D., 36; to Carolyn Kizer, 131; to James Laughlin, 19; to her parents, 11, 15, 16, 59, 66, 132; to Ezra Pound, 1, 14, 16, 52, 56, 93, 98, 101–102, 112, 138; to William Stafford, 132; to William Carlos Williams, 17, 19, 77, 130, 132. Works: “Adversity and the Generations,” 85; Assault on Mount Helicon 17–19, 36, 88, 105, 123, 130, 133, 136, 139; “Blanchefleur,” (unpub.), 66; “Blood Ritual,” 85; “Carillon,” (see “Dick” under Barnard, Mary: Works); “Carver, The,” 23; “Cassandra,” 157n58; Collected Poems, 8, 21, 33, 129, 131, 136–37; “Commerce,” (unpub.), 103, 109; “Communication on Greek Metric, A,” 93, 103, 118, 133; “Cool Country,” 46–47, 52; Cool Country, 2, 5, 11, 12, 37, 46, 52, 74, 78, 91, 117; “Creed” (preface to “The Horae of Mary Ethel Barnard,”) (unpub.), 25, 27, 91, 114; “Crossroads,” 74–76; “Cupbearer,” (unpub.), 67, 70–72; “Defence of the Poet’s Method, A,” (unpub.), 100–101, 105; “Departure,” (unpub.), 68, 100; “Dick,” 114–15...