WILLIAMS, Jonathan

This Williams calls himself a poet above all, but he is really an old-fashioned person-of-letters advancing literature in a variety of ways. He is a Small Press person, whose Jargon Society (1951) probably stands second to Something Else Press in publishing the people mentioned in this book (e.g. Kenneth Patchen , Bob Brown , and Buckminster Fuller , among others). Second, Williams is a critic whose speciality is the affectionate portrait of undervalued artists...