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Author:

Rayaprol, Srinivas, author.

Title:

Why should I write a poem now : the letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949-1958 / edited by Graziano Krätli.

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxii, 214 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Williams, William Carlos,--1883-1963--Correspondence.
Rayaprol, Srinivas--Correspondence.
Williams, William Carlos,--1883-1963.
Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence.
Poetry--Authorship.

Other Authors:

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, author.
Krätli, Graziano, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

In October 1949 the poet William Carlos Williams received a letter from a stranger, a young man from India who was studying engineering at Stanford University but wanted to write poetry. Williams was intrigued enough to write back. Their intense epistolary relationship, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters. Rayaprol returned to India and lived a quiet life as a civil engineer. Yet his commitment to poetry, spurred by Dr. Williams's long-distance mentoring, never faltered, and the three collections he published eventually gained him a lasting position in the canon of postcolonial Anglophone poetry in India. Rich in personal details, feelings, and moods, the Rayaprol-Williams correspondence is particularly significant as it provides original and valuable information about transnational literary modernism in the context of American cultural influence during the Cold War as well as the role played by US philanthropic organizations and their relationship to overt and covert CIA operations in India. -- Back cover.

ISBN:

0826359965
9780826359964

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1025358554

LCCN:

2018006288

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)