Williams in the mail

Julia Bloch

Mail received the other day from Joe Milutis, who Skyped into my William Carlos Williams class to talk about Paterson and the work he’s been doing on the impressively audio-rich and intertextual blog New Jersey as an Impossible Object. I’ll be writing more about Milutis’s visit here soon; until then, I’m enjoying the curiosity of the Williams postage stamp in the context of our ongoing conversation about canonization, transmission, the epistolary elements of Williams’s own work, and the fact of Williams being stamped by our current time signature.

October 2, 2012

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“There are no sagas — only trees now, animals, engines: There’s that.”
— William Carlos Williams, The Descent of Winter

In 2012, I’m writing a series of commentaries devoted to my course Literature 512: William Carlos Williams, at the Bard College MAT program in Delano, California. I’ll be writing about teaching poetry within a teacher training program, and about canonization, marginality, form, ideology, and American language.

Photo by Arielle Brousse.

Julia Bloch is an editor at Jacket2 and an assistant professor of literature in the Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching program. She is the author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson and lives in Southern California.

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