Zanetti autobiography of williams

If you like to read about a famous poet musing on why he started to write, the various collections he's written, and his writing process, then this is the volume for you.

It's a slim, one-afternoon read (my copy is from 1978 and is exactly 100 pages).


The anecdotes that WCW provided to Columbia grad student, Edith Heal, who spent summer afternoons in 1957 interviewing him and his wife are insightful and read like a prose time capsule.

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(Example: They even gave her a key to their home so that she would have access to his private library while they were away for the weekend! Imagine that!) One of my favorite reflections from WCW himself: the infamous "Red Wheelbarrow" was first published without said title.

Yes, WCW namedrops a bit (his connections to HD, Ezra Pound, and painter Charles Demuth), but always for a reason, often either to explain dedications from his collections or because they assiste