Session Details

Saturday, 27 December

34. William Carlos Williams, the Beats, and the San Francisco Scene

3:30–4:45 p.m., Continental 7, Hilton

Program arranged by the William Carlos Williams Society

Presiding: Erin Templeton, Converse Coll.

1. “Exemplary Poet, Exemplary Man: Kenneth Rexroth’s Idealization of William Carlos Williams,” Michael Van Dyke, Cornerstone Univ.

2. “‘No Holds on the Stone’: Jack Spicer’s A Red Wheelbarrow,” Daniel Katz, Univ. of Warwick

3. “Point of Transformation Pointing Past the Beats: Williams, Duncan, Now,” Robert George Kaufman, Univ. of California, Berkeley

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