SOMETHING URGENT I HAVE TO SAY TO YOU: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

Book ID/图书代码： 12844016B87069

English Summary/英文概要： The poet, doctor, and publisher William Carlos Williams lived one of the most interesting literary lives of the twentieth century. While studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Williams met Ezra Pound, a man who would become an important influence on Williams’ writing and introduce him to some of the most important literary figures of the late modernist period, such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. Though initially an imagist poet like Pound, Williams broke with him and sought to invent an entirely fresh - and singularly American - poetic, whose subject matter was centred on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. Herbert Leibowitz’s "Something Urgent I Have to Say to You" not only documents the exciting life of the man who rubbed shoulders with some of the twentieth century’s most important artists - including Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Wallace Stevens, and Allen Ginsberg - but provides a new perspective on the poetry that inspired a whole new movement in American verse. It is both a long-overdue portrait of an important writer and his work and an entertaining examination of the twentieth-century avant-garde art scene.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 威廉•卡洛斯•威廉斯是二十世纪著名的诗人、医生兼出版人，他的一生充满了传奇色彩。在宾夕法尼亚大学攻读医学时，威廉斯遇到了埃兹拉•庞德， 后者对威廉斯日后的写作生涯有着巨大的影响，庞德将威廉斯引荐给了后现代主义时期的几位重要作家。尽管一开始威廉斯走的也是像庞德一样的意象派诗人路线，但后来他自创了一套全新的美国诗歌流派，以日常生活环境以及普通人的生活作为描写的主题。《我不得不告诉你的故事》一书记载了威廉斯精彩的一生，其为诗歌领域提供了全新的视觉，在美国文学史上掀起了一股新的运动。该书既是对这位重要作家生平及作品的介绍，也是对20世纪前卫艺术领域的反思。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“Leibowitz的这本人物传记描写细致，研究深入，确切地剖析了威廉•卡洛斯•威廉斯这位医生兼诗人的一生。与其他研究该历史人物的著作不同，Leibowitz笔下的威廉斯性格丰富，充满忧虑困扰。”——Richard Howard

“在《我不得不告诉你的故事》一书中，作者对威廉斯这位20世纪伟大的美国作家进行了生动而又批判性的剖析。带着崇拜者的热情以及学者严谨的态度，作者Leibowitz向我们展示了一部充实、出色的人物传记作品。”--Albert Goldbarth

“作者对威廉斯各类作品（包括一些未受到充分赏识的短篇小说、散文和戏剧）的通晓以及大量引证的使用令威廉斯多变的无休止的才华展露无遗。”——《纽约客》

“该书变化多端，将威廉斯的一生带入了21世纪。”——《华盛顿独立书评》

"Mr. Leibowitz has written an acutely detailed, searching, and indeed discovering biography of an operose human being, the ’beloved’ New Jersey doctor and poet (and novelist and patriot-critic and autobiographer) William Carlos Williams, whose ever-provisional, always exploratory and often experimental art was invariably committed to the illusive presentment of simplicity, familiarity, and even normality. Unlike any other studies of this figure, Leibowitz’s good doctor Williams leaves us in no doubt of his troubled and troubling character, or rather in only doubt. ’Something Urgent I Have to Say to You’ is the first effectively intimate life-and-works study of a still uncertainly ’placed’ modern figure to offer a quandary not a condolence-call, a judgment that is neither a reassurance nor a bum’s rush. Patiently yet sportively Herb Leibowitz enables us to make the first grown-up reading of what has hitherto been offered as an adolescent hero or childish hooligan. A valuable achievement!" --Richard Howard

“In SOMETHING URGENT I HAVE TO SAY TO YOU, Williams—inarguably a twentieth-century American master—is lovingly (but not uncritically) assessed in a twenty-first-century masterpiece of literary biography and analysis. With a fan’s enthusiasm and a scholar’s rigor, Herb Leibowitz has given us a bountiful, beautiful project-of-a-lifetime book, the capacious embrace of which is made all the more amazing and all the more enduring by its author’ own sentence by sentence demonstration of verbal solidity wedded to verbal felicity.”--Albert Goldbarth

“The author’s command of Williams’s sprawling body of work—including the underappreciated short stories, essays, and plays—and his generous and illuminating use of quotation make Williams’s restless and protean talent clear.”--The New Yorker

“This is a protean book carrying William Carlos Williams forward into the 21st century and beyond.”--The Washington Independent Review of Books

About the Author/作者介绍： Herbert Leibowitz 是《诗歌评论》的编辑兼出版人，曾于2007年获得诗歌基金会评论大奖，以及其他诸多奖项。他同时在古根汉基金会和纽约公立图书馆学者与作家中心任职，并在巴塞罗那大学任教，其作品《我不得不告诉你的故事：威廉•卡洛斯•威廉斯生平及作品》于2011年由FSG出版。

Herbert Leibowitz is the editor and publisher of Parnassus:Poetry in Review. He has received the Poetry Foundation’s Randall Jarrell award in 2007 for criticism, the Poets House Elizabeth Kray Award in 2002 for "service to poetry, and the 1995 PEN American Center Nora Magid Prize for distinguished editing. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, A Fulbright Professor at The University of Barcelona, and a Fellow at The New York Institute for the Humanities from 1986 to the present. He is the author of “SOMETHING URGENT I HAVE TO SAY TO YOU”: The Life and Work of William Carlos Williams, which was published by FSG 2011.

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