Part of the problem, as I hear/see it in this discussion may be of
accent, so to speak. I mean, perhaps Williams's sound is a North
America thing.
I remember not only Spring and all, which I came to later, but
especially how much Williams's Late Poems volume from New Directions,
which contained the Asphodel volume etc, meant to me, & how they sang
to my ears.
But then, I was reading them 'among' Creeley, Duncan, Levertov, Olson,
et al, all of whom also spoke to my sense of poetic possibilities....
I guess, in this matter, I'm much closer to Mark ....
(Not that I cant get off on aspects of Eliot, but in a different way...)
Doug
On 28-Mar-06, at 7:01 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> To Elsie"
> from Spring and all (1923)
>
> The pure products of America
> go crazy--
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