Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams

Bram Dijkstra is Professor of American and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous books, including Georgia O'Keeffe and the Eros of Place, Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality and the Cult of Manhood, Defoe and Economics: The Fortune of Roxana in the History of Interpretation, and Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture.

"Dijkstra has demonstrated beyond any doubt that Williams was enormously influenced by experimentation in the visual arts and that he attempted to emulate the Stieglitz group in focusing on the object itself, delineating it as precisely as possible and letting it represent the moment of perception without intruding personal comment."--Comparative Literature

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsIThe New York Avant Garde, 1910-19173IIThe Poem as a Canvas of Broken Parts47IIIStieglitz82IVThe Evangelists of the American Moment108VDoctor Williams and the New World127VIThe Hieroglyphics of a New Speech145VIIThe Poem as Still-Life161Selective Bibliography199Index211