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Description of  Letters to Jargon: The Correspondence between Larry Eigner and Jonathan Williams (Modern and Contemporary Poetics)

0817359346 pdf Gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by a crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the 1950s and 1960s and the Language poets in the 1970s and 1980s, Larry Eigners poems occupy an important place in American poetry and poetics, and his reputation and legacy grow seemingly stronger with each passing year. Letters to Jargon collects all of the known correspondence between Larry Eigner and Jonathan Williams, the influential publisher of Jargon Society Press and himself a poet. Eigners correspondence with Williams began in the early 1950s, as the two were in conversation over the manuscript of Read more