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Jonathan Williams (1) (1929–2008)

Auteur van A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude

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The Magpie's Bagpipe (1982) 36 exemplaren
Quote, Unquote (1989) 24 exemplaren
Blackbird Dust (2000) 22 exemplaren
Portrait Photographs (1979) 18 exemplaren
Mahler (1969) 10 exemplaren
Amen Huzza Selah (1959) 10 exemplaren
Elegies and Celebrations (1962) 8 exemplaren
JW/50 (1979) 6 exemplaren
Lines About Hills Above Lakes (1964) 6 exemplaren
Epitaphs for Lorine 5 exemplaren
The Delian Seasons (1982) 5 exemplaren
Empire Finals at Verona (1959) 5 exemplaren
A Hornet's Nest (2008) 4 exemplaren
Shankum naggum (1979) 4 exemplaren
The gAy BCs (1976) 4 exemplaren
Quantulumcumque (1991) 4 exemplaren
Dementations on Shank's Mare (1988) 4 exemplaren
Super-Duper Zuppa Inglese (1977) 4 exemplaren
Metafours for Mysophobes (SC) (1990) 3 exemplaren
Hot What? (1975) 3 exemplaren
Who Is Little Enis? 3 exemplaren
And He Hath Sown 2 exemplaren
APOSIOPESES ODDS & ENDS . (1988) 2 exemplaren
Beauty? Beauty My Eye! (1975) 2 exemplaren
The Prophet's Ladder (2017) 2 exemplaren
Poet's Poems No. 12 1 exemplaar
TSM (1917-1962) 1 exemplaar
Jargon Billboard #3 1 exemplaar
Jargon Billboard #2 1 exemplaar
Jargon Billboard #1 1 exemplaar
A new poem 1 exemplaar
Ray's Grays 1 exemplaar
Behind the Blue Beret (2010) 1 exemplaar
Ripostes (1968) 1 exemplaar
The history of Radnorshire (1999) 1 exemplaar
Imaginary postcards (1975) 1 exemplaar
Para-Forensics (2015) 1 exemplaar
T. Ben Williams 1 exemplaar
Five Clerihews 1 exemplaar
Texas Quarterly 1 exemplaar

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The poem:

Who Is Little Enis? by Jonathan Williams

Little Enis is
"one hunnert an' 80lbs of
dynamite
with a 9-inch
fuse"

his real name is
Carlos Toadvine
which his wife Irma Jean
pronounces Carlus

Carlos says
Toadaveenie is a eyetalyun name,
used to be lots of 'em
around these parts

Ed McClanahan is the World's Leading Little Enis freak
and all this information comes from a weekend in Winston
with Big Ed telling the lore of Lexington, Kentucky,
which is where Enis has been hanging it out for years and years,
at Boot's Bar and Giuseppe's Villa and now The Embers,
pickin' and singin' rockabilly style

Carlus ain't what he was
according to Irma Jean's accounts
(and even to his own):

he was sittin' there one night in the kitchen at home
tellin' stories and talkin' trash about Irma Jean --
with her right there with her hair put up in them pink plastic curlers --
about how these days how he likes to pop it to her dog-style
just now and again and how she likes it pretty damn well
when they wander all over the house
and end up in the living room corner --
"I'm just afraid Carlus will run us out the door and down the street
opposite the automatic laundry . . ."

The 9-inch fuse hung down Enis' right leg
is called, familiarly,
Ol' Blue

Ol' Blue used to be in the pink --
way in

Blue has a head on him like a tom-cat
and ribs like a hongry hound

and he used to get so hard
a cat
couldn't
scratch it . . .

but now that Enis has the cirrhosis
and takes all these harmones
Ol' Blue just don't
stand up like a little man
and cut the mustard
anymore

but Enis will smile and say
let's all have a drink, maybe I can drown thatthere liver of ours,
it's no bigger'n a dime nohow anymore, it just floats in there . . .

Hey, Blue, let's shake that thing!
Turn loose this oldie by my boy Elvis,
a golden oldie --
let's go, Blue!

And off they go
into the wild Blue-
Grass . . .

Carlos & Blue,
thinking of you . . .

hail & farewell!
… (meer)
 
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chuck_ralston | Sep 17, 2019 |
What a retrospective book with snapshots should be and similar to Rodman's.
 
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JayLivernois | 2 andere besprekingen | Apr 4, 2013 |
I have mixed emotions on this one, mostly because Mr. Williams is all over the place with his writing. He's crazy and absurd on 1 page and intricate and complex on another (although the latter appears very infrequently.) Mostly I thought the poetry was odd and strange and really not all that poetic. He did, however, keep my attention...if not only for the simple fact that I was curious just what on earth he'd say next. Not recommended...but not exactly a complete was of time either.
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Ape | Apr 17, 2010 |
What a great poetic and literary sensibility, which can write in pithy essays.
 
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JayLivernois | Apr 2, 2010 |

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