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The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams »

Authors: Peter Halter
ISBN-13: 9780521102667, ISBN-10: 0521102669
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

This book explores the influence of the visual arts on the poems of William Carlos Williams.

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
	Prelude: Getting in Touch	8
1	"A Poem Can Be Made of Anything"	13
2	Vortex; or, A Thing Is What It Does	35
3	The Poem as a Field of Action	60
4	Soothing the Savage Beast: Cubist Realism and the Urban Landscape	94
5	The Virgin and the Dynamo	128
6	The Search for a Synthetic Form	155
7	The Poem on the Page	182
	Conclusion	211
	Notes	221
	Selected Bibliography	254
	Index	265