WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS RIDS THE PEDIATRIC WARDS OF THE NEW YORK NURSERY AND CHILD'S HOSPITAL OF BEDBUGS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-616
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
William Carlos Williams ◽  
American Poets ◽  
Big Pieces

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), one of the most significant American poets of this century, practiced pediatrics for more than 40 years in his birthplace, Rutherford, New Jersey. As an intern in 1908-1909 at the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital, he discovered that the persistent screaming of several of his patients, especially at night, was caused by bedbug bites. In his Autobiography Williams described his tactics as an exterminator. Next day I got permission to buy half a barrel of bar-sulfur, big pieces round as my wrist.

‘Out Past / Self-Dramatization’: Maurice Scully's Several Dances

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Romana Huk
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
William Carlos Williams ◽  
The Self ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
George Oppen ◽  
American Poets

What has lyric to do with any radical phenomenology's choreography? Maurice Scully in Several Dances asks that question, as he has for years now, alongside other poets of Ireland's avant-garde whose ‘distinguishing (not inhibiting) feature’, as Sarah Bennett writes (acknowledging the work of Alex Davis and Eric Falci before her) is that in it ‘the lyric subject persists’ – in tandem with, this essay argues, what she names ‘an interest in perception … [which] is perhaps the most compelling commonality in these poets' work’. What distinguishes Scully's from the lyric phenomenology of American poets from William Carlos Williams (invoked throughout the volume) to George Oppen (also invoked) is that he queries existentialism's ‘singular’ approach to phenomena, achieved as Heidegger thought through the phenomenological ‘bracketing’ of individual (and communal) preconceptions from the perception of things. Cosmic – even theological – speculation enters in as Scully's poems move out past both self-centered lyric and twentieth-century cancellations of all preconceptions in the ‘limit-thinking’ and being-toward-death that phenomenology proposed for seeing past the self. Yet Scully works with mortality always in his sights too as he sings ‘the Huuuman / Limit-at-tation Blues’ (p.118) and, more vertiginously, considers both the undelimitability and the fragility of us.

Sea floor characterization offshore of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area using sidescan sonar

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Schwab ◽  
J.F. Denny ◽  
Bradford Butman ◽  
W.W. Danforth ◽  
D.S. Foster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Sidescan Sonar ◽  
Sea Floor
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