'Hemi-demi-semi Barbaric Yawps': Jonathan Williams and Black Mountain

Hair, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3570-7471 (2013) 'Hemi-demi-semi Barbaric Yawps': Jonathan Williams and Black Mountain. Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, 3.

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Abstract

The achievements of the former Black Mountain College student Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) are, Kenneth Irby notes, “diverse and remarkable,” encompassing his work as a poet, a photographer, a publisher, an essayist, and, as Guy Davenport suggests, a peripatetic disseminator of culture: “He publishes poets, introduces poets to poets, poets to readers, professors to poets, poets (perilous business) to professors, and he photographs poets” (307; 180). Williams is perhaps best known as the founder of the small press The Jargon Society, which he began in 1951 during a brief period in San Francisco shortly before enrolling at Black Mountain College.

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Additional Information: Part of special feature: "To Open Eyes"
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of American Studies (former - to 2014)
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies
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Depositing User: Katherine Humphries
Date Deposited: 21 Nov 2012 10:35
Last Modified: 21 Jul 2023 08:42
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40138
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