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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985025
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In October 2009, I was asked by the late and much-missed Bryce Conrad, when the journal was still published at his university, Texas Tech, if I would take over from him as editor. The circumstances of his approach were very sad as he wished to step away from his responsibilities due to the terminal illness he had been diagnosed with and so devote his remaining years to being with his family. He died in 2017. Bryce was a gentleman, an inspiration, and a friendly guide as I sought to learn the ropes from him, and that moment when he asked me in person to be the one to take on the editorship remains the proudest of my academic career. I am very happy to have managed to guide the journal for the subsequent 16 years
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985026
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In his 1923 poetic manifesto, Spring and All, William Carlos Williams states that the genre of poetry “has to do with the crystallization of the imagination,” while referring to prose as that which “has to do with the fact as an emotion” (CP1 226). Bearing in mind these opinions as pivotal statements in this study, the discussion opens by exploring Williams’s modernist aims, which deferred from those of major contemporary poets such as T.S. Eliot, and will consider the stages of what shall be defined as Williams’s “Poem-Work”—his description of the process of developing a poem—in comparison to Sigmund Freud’s idea of “Dream-Work,” as presented in his A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1915–1917). Freud’s
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/365/image/coversmallPoem-Work Unfolding: Influences and Textual Results of William Carlos Williams’s Definition(s) of Poetics2026-03-10text/htmlen-USPoem-Work Unfolding: Influences and Textual Results of William Carlos Williams’s Definition(s) of Poetics2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®950562026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Early and Late Style in Williams
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985027
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When A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan undertook the editing of The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, they partitioned the work into two volumes: the first volume contains work spanning the first 30 years of Williams’s career, from 1909 to 1939; the second volume, edited by MacGowan alone, spans work from 1939 to 1962. Since both volumes are roughly comparable in length, with each numbering approximately 90,000 words, and since Williams’s poetics developed in significant ways across an arc spanning the twin emergences of modernism and postmodernism, his Collected Poems presents a useful corpus for consideration of the differences between early and late styles in a poet’s oeuvre. Attention in this
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/365/image/coversmallEarly and Late Style in Williams2026-03-10text/htmlen-USEarly and Late Style in Williams2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®958322026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Perception in the Mode of the Word: Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy of Perception in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985028
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Of William Carlos Williams, everyone who knows anything knows one thing: no ideas but in things! This dictum, so oft-cited as to verge on catchphrase, raises questions that belie its ostensible simplicity. Perhaps the most obvious of these questions is: Just what ideas lie in things? Another is: What exactly is meant by the preposition “in?” To avoid the deadening reductionism of what has ultimately amounted to truism, we must attend to the ideas themselves. But ideas, as we find them in poems, are not ultimately distinct from those things in which, on Williams’s account, they lie. The relationship between thing and idea in Williams’s work must be our starting point for analysis. Williams’s credo first appears in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/365/image/coversmallPerception in the Mode of the Word: Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy of Perception in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams2026-03-10text/htmlen-USPerception in the Mode of the Word: Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy of Perception in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®952742026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Allen Ginsberg’s Early Review of William Carlos Williams’s Paterson I
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985029
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On the evening of September 3, 1946, the twenty-year-old Allen Ginsberg wrote in his journal: “I have for this evening’s entertainment, to write a review of William Carlos Williams’ Paterson (Book One) for the Passaic Valley Examiner” (Book 145). Ginsberg would go on to be famous. Paterson would go on for four more books and receive recognition as Willliams’s major poetic achievement. But the Passaic Valley Examiner, never more than a local party organ, would last only to 1951 and soon be forgotten along with its contents, including Ginsberg’s review.1 Bringing the review to light, in the Appendix offered here, serves several purposes. It is a rare reading of Paterson from the perspective of Paterson’s citizens, at
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/365/image/coversmallAllen Ginsberg’s Early Review of William Carlos Williams’s Paterson I2026-03-10text/htmlen-USAllen Ginsberg’s Early Review of William Carlos Williams’s Paterson I2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®486972026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10Daniel Morris, Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy: A Thirty-Year Creative Reading Workshop by Daniel Morris (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985030
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The 16-word title suggests that there is a lot going on in this peripatetic, promiscuous, and ambitious book. It is organized around the author’s professional journey: from Northwestern to Boston University, and Brandeis (where Morris studied with Alan Grossman and Frank Bidart), to Harvard (where Morris taught in the History and Literature Department), to Purdue University where for 30 years Morris taught as a professor of English. It is a story of a poet and critic engaging in regional cultures of the experimental arts while navigating the inevitable parochialisms of intellectual life.The intellectual range of these 16 essays and interviews is delightfully engaging. Morris includes discussions of, among others
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/365/image/coversmallDaniel Morris, Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy: A Thirty-Year Creative Reading Workshop by Daniel Morris (review)2026-03-10text/htmlen-USDaniel Morris, Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy: A Thirty-Year Creative Reading Workshop by Daniel Morris (review)2026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®78312026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10William Carlos Williams Bibliography 2024
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The following bibliography is illustrative rather than exhaustive. If you have peer-reviewed work published in 2025 that you wish to see listed in volume 43, then please contact Simon at: simontrueb@gmx.ch by March 1
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/365/image/coversmallWilliam Carlos Williams Bibliography 20242026-03-10text/htmlen-USWilliam Carlos Williams Bibliography 20242026-03-102026TWOProject MUSE®325982026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-10