The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939 (Vol. 1): 001 (New Directions Paperbook) by William Carlos Williams & Christopher MacGowan

Author:William Carlos Williams & Christopher MacGowan [Williams, William Carlos]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811224598
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1991-09-17T04:30:00+00:00

It is a pure literary adjustment. The supremacy of England is purely a matter of style. Officially they are realists, such as the treaty with Italy to divide Abyssinia. Realists—it is the tactical spread of realism that is the Soviets. Imperial Russia was romanticist, strabismic, atavistic. Style. He does not blame the other countries. They fear what he sees. He sees tribes of lawyers tripping each other up entirely off the ground and falling on pillows full of softly jumbled words from goose backs.

I know a good print when I see it. I know when it is good and why it is good. It is the neck of a man, the nose of a woman. It is the same Shakespeare. It is a photograph by Sheeler. It is. It is the thing where it is. So. That’s the mine out of which riches have always been drawn. The kings come and beg for it. But it is too simple. In the complexity, when we try to enrich ourselves—the richness is lost. Loss and gain go hand in hand. And hand in hand means my hand in a hand which is in it: a child’s hand soft skinned, small, a little fist to hold gently, a woman’s hand, a certain woman’s hand, a man’s hand. Thus hand in hand means several classes of things. But loss is one thing. It is lost. It is one big thing that is an orchestra playing. Time, that’s what it buys. But the gain is scattered. It is everywhere but there is not much in any place. A city is merely a relocation of metals in a certain place.—He feels the richness, but a distressing feeling of loss is close upon it. He knows he must coordinate the villages for effectiveness in a flood, a famine.

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