Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Daniel Katz
• Leslie Elizabeth Eckel
• Clare Frances Elliott

Titel

Music, Language and (Latin) American Grains: William Carlos Williams’s Voyage to Pagany and ‘The Desert Music

Ist Teil von

• The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, 2016, p.282

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ‘Il faut que je prenne a little pildorito,’ William Carlos Williams quotes his mother as saying in Yes, Mrs. Williams: A Personal Record of my Mother.¹ ‘Record’ is indeed the word for this short memoir, of which the greater part is given to Williams’s largely unannotated and fragmentary jottings of things his mother said while living with him and his family in her infirm old age. The phrase above, if not entirely typical in its degree of compression, is wholly representative in its mixing of the three languages used by Raquel Hélène Rose Hoheb Williams to say, in her son’s