Tag William Carlos Williams

That mural sea

Reviewing Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age by Anatoly Liberman, Sibelan Forrester remarks: Russians who read Anglophone poetry in the Soviet period turned to the works available, which were largely translations or original editions of poetry from the era…

A W.C. Williams poem at Fresh Bilge

What is a poetic line? Is it primarily a matter of notation or should we look for intrinsic line breaks invariant to the poem’s graphic representation? What is the relationship between the two and what is the extent of the…