Chapitre X. “One day/this rock/will talk”: monuments and monumentality in the poetry of Jonathan Williams and Ronald Johnson
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18 septembre 2018
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Lacy Rumsey, « Chapitre X. “One day/this rock/will talk”: monuments and monumentality in the poetry of Jonathan Williams and Ronald Johnson », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.z0qp9x
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Despite the bold incipit of Guy Davenport’s 1969 introduction to his work—“Jonathan Williams, poet”—Williams (1928-2008) has always been as well known for his other activities as for his poetry: as the founder of the independent American press Jargon Books, as the publisher and advocate of a wide range of experimental poets including Charles Olson, Mina Loy and Lorine Niedecker, as a collector of quotations, a photographer, a writer on photography and folk art. His poetry is distinguished fro...