Thanks Viv for your reminder of 'Paterson'. I guess I didn't include
this particular poem as an example of 'noted up' poetry as I'm not
especially fond of it. I think W.C. Williams is a better exponent of
the short poem (a la 'the red wheelbarrow'), than the long poem. But I
looked again at 'Paterson' , and you're certainly right about the
interleaving/interweaving textuality of the work. Rereading it, in some
ways it more resembles Zukofsky's 'A' rather than 'The Maximus Poems'.
Re 'The Maximus Poems', you should look at the the 1983 edition
published by Univ. of California Press, and edited by George F.
Butterick. It has the complete text which consists of parts IV, V and VI
plus 'The Maximus Poems' and 'The Maximus Poems: Volume 3'. In total,
the text comes to 635 pages plus various editorial appendixes.
Butterick writes that 'The Maximus Poems' were begun in 1950 and
completed in 1970.
According to the unnamed New Directions (ND) editor of the ND edition
of 'Paterson', the poem was written between 1946 and 1958. Again,
according to the ND editor, Williams was planning a new section in
1960-1 but his death prevented his plans from being realized, apart from
a few fragments included in the ND edition of the poems.
Leith
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University of Newcastle, NSW
Australia
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