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By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959
William Carlos Williams
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Paperback. Editor(s): Cohen, Jonathan. Num Pages: 144 pages, facsim. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 240.
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) produced a startling number of translations of both Spanish and Latin American poetry starting during WWI and continuing through the late fifties. Williams grew up in a Spanish-speaking home and sometimes described himself as half-Spanish. His mother was Puerto Rican and his father spoke Spanish fluently. “Spanish is not, in the sense to which I refer, a literary language,” Williams wrote in his Autobiography. “It has a place of its own, an independent place very sympathetic to the New World.”
Williams approached translation as a way not only to present the work of ... Read more
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) produced a startling number of translations of both Spanish and Latin American poetry starting during WWI and continuing through the late fifties. Williams grew up in a Spanish-speaking home and sometimes described himself as half-Spanish. His mother was Puerto Rican and his father spoke Spanish fluently. “Spanish is not, in the sense to which I refer, a literary language,” Williams wrote in his Autobiography. “It has a place of its own, an independent place very sympathetic to the New World.”
Williams approached translation as a way not only to present the work of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
167
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811218856
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V9780811218856
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About William Carlos Williams
Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs. Jonathan Cohen is the editor and compiler of William Carlos Williams’ By Word of Mouth: ... Read more
Reviews for By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959
"Jonathan Cohen shows us why translation is crucial to understanding Williams, who approached it as an essential act of poetry. The poet emerges as the first among our modernist writers to see the literary value of translating classical and contemporary verse from both Spain and Latin America. By Word of Mouth makes that clear."
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