The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford

Wendell Berry

ISBN 10: 1619021536 / ISBN 13: 9781619021532

Published by Counterpoint Press, Berkeley, 2011

About this Item

Very Good Book. SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY IN INK DIRECTLY TO THE TITLE PAGE. Trade Paperback with glossy wrappers. Covers show minor edgewear, a few light indentations and scratches, and shelfwear but are otherwise clean. Spine uncracked. Corners show light wear. Light crease to bottom edge of front cover near joint. Small creases to top edge of back cover. All edges of textblock show light scratches and shelfwear. Binding tight. Book slightly curled. Pages clean and unmarked. 189 pages. 5-1/2 X 8-1/4.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford
• Publisher: Counterpoint Press, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1619021536
• ISBN 13: 9781619021532
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 7 ounces
• Signed: Signed

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Synopsis

A “superb study” that “reminds us that Williams remains our contemporary not only for the lively cadences and fresh imagery that animate his poems, but for the ethical imperative of his example” (The Sewanee Review).

Acclaimed essayist and poet Wendell Berry was born and has always lived in a provincial part of the country without an established literary culture. In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry County, Kentucky, Berry discovered an enduringly useful example in the work of William Carlos Williams. In Williams’ commitment to his place of Rutherford, New Jersey, Berry found an inspiration that inevitably influenced the direction of his own writing.

Both men would go on to establish themselves as respected American poets, and here Berry sets forth his understanding of that evolution for Williams, who in the course of his local membership and service, became a poet indispensable to us all.

“Generously quoting many of Williams’ best lines . . . Berry produces a work of aesthetics more than evaluation, of love more than critique.” —Booklist

About the Author

WENDELL BERRY, an essayist, novelist, and poet, has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.