Why Should I Write a Poem Now The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949 1958

Krätli, Graziano (Editor)/ Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (Foreward By)/ Mariani, Paul (Afterword)

ISBN 10: 0826359965 / ISBN 13: 9780826359964

Editore: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2018

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• Titolo: Why Should I Write a Poem Now The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949 1958
• Editore: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0826359965
• ISBN 13: 9780826359964
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Brand New

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In October 1949 the poet William Carlos Williams received a letter from 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 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.