links and images, first lecture: 9-15-08

Technical toolkits for describing poems in general, to which you will likely return.

Modernism in the visual arts: cubism and more cubism, some Vorticism by Wyndham Lewis and later some Surrealism by Tanguy.

Modernisms in the visual arts: photography, by for example Alfred Steiglitz (ship steerage) and Edward Steichen (big lathe) and Berenice Abbott (Union Square). And product design (radios).

Visual moderns come to America: the Armory Show.

Jazz on record and in live performance, e.g. Fletcher Henderson, blues, e.g. Bessie Smith, and fine-art adaptations (Bauhaus Band).

Automobiles, airplanes, faster boats and subways and trains.

The Great War: map of Verdun. An air raid. Verdun on fire. Dead people in a trench. (General resource for Great War photography.)

Sigmund Freud.

Modernism and the look and feel of a page: Apollinaire's visual poetry. More of his visual poetry. Blaise Cendrars' Prose du transsiberien: front cover, and final page.

Modernism in New York: Arensberg living room. Arensberg circle: Others magazine writers.

Williams' friends: Sheeler. a Sheeler photograph. Charles Demuth, illustrating Williams' poem.

High Modernism in London: Blast magazine. More pages from Blast.


Lorine Niedecker: her friends in Wisconsin. Her EPC page.

Langston Hughes and other Harlem writing. Langston Hughes, professional writer.

Robert Lowell, right here.