Author: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Title: contributes prose and poems to the inaugural issue of the quarterly periodical 'Perspectives'. Number One, autumn 1952. Edited by James Laughlin.
Description: Hamish Hamilton Ltd. London, 1952. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First English edition. Tall 8vo. 194pp. Card wrappers featuring a design by Alvin Lustig, lightly spotted and spoiled, and with several quite light readership creases to the spine. A good, bright copy. William Carlos Williams contributes 'The Destruction of Tenochtitlan' (an excerpt from 'In the American Grain'), his story Comedy 'Entombed: 1930', and his poems 'These', 'To Waken an Old Lady', 'The Widow's Lament in Springtime', 'Smell!' and 'The Yachts', plus ten shorter verses. Other contributors include William Faulkner (a reproduction of his Nobel Prize speech), Ben Shahn (a colour reproduction of his painting 'Composition for Clarinets and Tin Horn'), Thornton Wilder (the text of his lecture 'Goethe and World Literature'), Marianne Moore (some of her translations for 'The Fables of La Fontaine', appearing here prior to their bookform publication), plus reviews by Edward Dahlberg and Randall Jarrell (of William Carlos Williams' 'Collected Poems'). The inaugural issue of Laughlin's quarterly magazine of art and culture (issued in the US under the title 'Perspectives U.S.A.'), produced as part of the 'Cultural Cold War against the Soviet Union'. A total of sixteen issues were produced between October 1952 and July 1956. Good.

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