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"'Nelle vene dell'America', che William Carlos Williams, uno dei maggiori poeti americani del nostro secolo, compose circa quarant'anni or sono, è tra i libri più singolari che siano mai stati dedicati all'interpretazione di un paese e di una civiltà. Soccorso da una immaginazione vibratile, Williams discende nelle profonde vene dell'America: interroga gli eroi della sua storia, da Colombo fino a Lincoln: raccoglie documenti, brani di diario, frammenti di testimonianze e se ne appropria, come ori e gemme barbariche sul petto di un conquistatore: alterna splendidi poemi in prosa, autobiografie immaginarie di esploratori, bellissimi dialoghi, confessioni e violenti sarcasmi. Alla fine di questa interrogazione, i volti diversi si cancellano, i fatti storici si amalgamano, tutte le voci diventano le sfumature di una voce sola. L'America di William Carlos Williams è un unico, immenso corpo femminile, disteso tra due oceani, che possiede la drammatica inesauribilità delle figure mitiche." (Pietro Citati)
- ISBN: 8845929809
- Casa Editrice: Adelphi
- Pagine: 307
- Data di uscita: 19-03-2015
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"We are, too, the others. Think of them! The main islands were thickly populated with a peaceful folk when Christ-over found them. But the orgy of blood which followed, no man had written. We are the slaughterers. It is the tortured soul of our world. Indians have no souls; that was it. That was wha Leggi tutto
We are the slaughterers. It is the tortured soul of our world. Indians have no souls; that was it. That was what they said. But they knew they lied—the blood-smell proof. Dr. Williams had something to say here. He usually did. He gave us episodic prose poems about the founding --whatever the hell tha Leggi tutto
im not sure why i thought that the ezra and co.'s racism wouldnt rub off on WCW but jeez, even as one of his devotees, i cant stand this. i get that WCW was always self-conscious about his status as the modernist that got left behind, and feels ashamed that he is not able to pull from a well of cultu Leggi tutto
ambitious enough to be enjoyable but doesn’t really seem to know what to do with itself. kind of a half assed attempt at a biblical canon of the American character, punctuated here and there by wcw’s idiosyncratic prose, reminding you that you are in fact reading a pseudo historical tract by someone Leggi tutto
Williams' book of essays on America is a collage of documents, reflections, and pastiches that illuminates the country's history in a way that stands outside the received truths of the age in which it was written and the churning revisions of today. This America was founded on blood, betrayal, and p Leggi tutto
A fascinating one-of-a-kind book. William Carlos Williams' groundbreaking classic, In the American Grain , is partly a primer on American history in which he focuses on certain select individuals who had some historical influence in shaping the nation of the United States or who came to represent the Leggi tutto
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