Session Details

Sunday, 09 January

720. William Carlos Williams’s An Early Martyr and Other Poems: Seventy-Five Years Later

10:15–11:30 a.m., Olympic I, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the William Carlos Williams Society

Presiding: Theodora Rapp Graham, Penn State Univ., Harrisburg

1. “Williams and the Great Depression,” Steven Gould Axelrod, Univ. of California, Riverside

2. “The Deed Is Still Good: The 1920s in An Early Martyr,” George Leslie Hart, California State Univ., Long Beach

3. “‘Pissing Your Life Away’: An Early Martyr and Poems of Otherness,” J. T. Welsch, Univ. of Manchester

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