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	Amazon.com: Paterson: Books: William Carlos Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Despite its epic scope, Paterson is often chosen by nonspecialists, such as the social critic Robert Coles, as the way in to a discovery of Williams' exuberant and humane career as a poet.
		A modernist classic, Paterson is a nativist's answer to the cosmopolitan Pound and Eliot, "a reply to Greek and Latin with the bare hands." By exploring the local, Williams sought to descry the universal and to find in city and landscape symbolic analogues for the essential issues of human life.
		Paterson is the magnum opus of a man who forgot that one of the ways that poets are divided are those who are obsessed with the art of poesy, and those obsessed with its craft.
	www.amazon.com /Paterson-William-Carlos-Williams/dp/081121298X (1652 words)

	Paterson (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paterson is a poem by influential modern American poet William Carlos Williams.
		The five books of Paterson were published separately in 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958, and the entire work was published as a unit in 1963.
		It is a poetic monument to, and personification of, the town of Paterson, New Jersey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paterson_(poem) (119 words)

	Poetry Daily Prose Feature: Timothy Donnelly, "Nothing, in Other Words: On the Poetry of Don Paterson" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		While Paterson’s case for a national identity based upon global unimportance is perhaps too baldly ironic, his formula points to the connection between post-nationalist discourse and globalization even as it advertises rather than conceals the inherently ironic and self-parodic nature of post-nationalism.
		Paterson, citing another, questions reality’s status as the truth of which art is a mere copy, and posits it instead, in its “best effect,” as concomitant and indistinguishable from art.
		Paterson frequently pushes the boundaries of syntax, but he eschews such radical disruption; for his purposes, conventional notions of national and personal identity are best examined by self-consciously perpetuating and complicating them, best critiqued by representing them in crisis.
	www.poems.com /essadonn.htm (3473 words)

	Paraska - the animal, walking, the city: The interpenetration of thought and body in William Carlos Williams’ Paterson
		Paterson is the land and Paterson is the man and they are listening to one another, dreaming and being other and all sounds and language and scenes and people and their stories.
		Paterson is the land and Paterson is the man and Paterson is the motion and the bodies and stops between.
		So the poem becomes the body of the man in the body of the land-woman as he disintegrates into her and he-she push forth flowers through the rocks, flowers with a more suitable language for what is happening, happens, happened to man and land.
	writing.colostate.edu /gallery/parataxis/paraska.htm (2085 words)

	[minstrels] Come-By-Chance -- A. B. "Banjo" Paterson
		Paterson packs the entire punchline of his parody into the phrase "'twas the Postal Guide, in fact", and then, the reader having been supplied the promised laugh, uses the lines as a springboard into a decidedly non-parodic poem.
		By the second verse, the poem has taken on more of the air of Turner's "Romance" [Poem #238], evoking a sense of distance and otherness through its use of exotic place names - with, perhaps, a dash of Lehrer's "Lobachevsky" in its recognition of the humorous aspect of those names.
		By verse three, the poem is pure Paterson; we recognise and welcome the familiar scenes of the Australian bush, and the men who inhabit it.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1277.html (852 words)

	Paterson, New Jersey
		Paterson is a city located in Passaic County, New Jersey.
		Paterson, which was founded by the society, became the cradle of the industrial revolution in America.
		Paterson was named for William Paterson, New Jersey governor, statesman, and signer of the Constitution.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paterson__new_jersey.html (521 words)

	Poetry New Zealand :: About the Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		PATERSON, Alistair or A.I.H. (1929), is a poet, editor, anthologist, fiction writer and critic most associated with the development in the 1970s-1980s of New Zealand awareness of recent American poetics, especially aspects of postmodernism and the concept of open form.
		Paterson's volumes of poetry are: Caves in the Hill (1965), Birds Flying (1973), Cities and Strangers (1976), The Toledo Room (1978), Quappelle (1982), Odysseus Rex (1985) and Incantations for Warriors (1986).
		Paterson's poetry has been frequently anthologised both in New Zealand and America and he was co-winner of the J.C. Reid Award for longer poems in 1982 for Qu-appelle.
	www.geocities.com /poetrynz/Editor.html (652 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Pinter's poetry? Anyone can do it
		As part of the annual TS Eliot lecture, which Paterson delivers today, he will urge poets to "flirt with real danger", and also launch a withering attack on his literary colleague.
		Paterson - whose work has a dedicated following, and who won both this year's Whitbread poetry prize and the TS Eliot award - takes no prisoners in his lecture.
		Paterson accuses the former of "infantilising" the art of poetry.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1339731,00.html (265 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - 101 Sonnets
		Paterson adds notes at the back of the book on each poem - nothing detailed, usually just a paragraph of background, or a note to draw the reader's attention to a technique, line, or word that helps to create the poem’s particular effect.
		The poem is a nod to Frost’s forebears, those folks who imposed on a foreign land their own brand of faith and values, dogged people with clear and simple principles based on bare backs and bibles, tough, hard working and determined against great odds.
		Paterson said that 'The Silken Tent' is quietly virtuosic and that 'quietness' is at least partly due to what I have cheekily pointed out as flaws, such as the use of the stative verb 'is'.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?t=36921 (3272 words)

	[minstrels] Clancy of the Overflow -- A. B. "Banjo" Paterson
		Paterson claimed, afraid to use his own name "lest the editor, identifying one with the author of the pamphlet, would dump my contribution, unread, into the waste-paper basket...", adopted the pen-name of "The Banjo" after a "so-called racehorse" his family had owned - and the legend was born.
		Biography: There's a nice biography (only one of several; just feed 'banjo paterson biography' into google) at http://www.waltzingmatilda.com/wmbanjo.html I quote one paragraph for its striking parallel with Kipling: Today, in some circles, there is a view that Paterson was "the spokesman of the squattocracy and the station owners".
		The first sixteen lines are wonderful, with their combination of images quirky (the shearing mate writing with a thumbnail dipped in tar) and luminous, even numinous (the breezes on the river bars, and the 'vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended').
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/566.html (2068 words)

	Luing by Don Paterson - Poetry Archive
		Paterson is currently poetry editor at Picador, teaches in the School of English at St Andrews University, and lives in Kirriemuir, Angus, with his partner and family.
		This generates a sense of both division and unity: on the one hand many of his poems are acutely conscious of themselves as fiction, the narrator taking us into his confidence (which may or may not be a trick): "In short, this is where you get off, reader" ('Nil, Nil').
		Paterson has spoken of his suspicion of poetry in performance, preferring to see the completed poem as autonomous.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=6174 (460 words)

	Blinking Eye Publishing - Don Paterson
		All a competition judge is ever looking for, of course, is a brilliant poem; but judging a poetry competition is one sure-fire way of losing your definition of poetic brilliance, if you ever committed the error of thinking you had one.
		More seriously, you soon realise that a poem that seems to exemplify one poetic virtue - a wonderfully integrated lyric music, say - can’t fairly be weighed against the argumentative brilliance of another.
		And - since poems don’t need any money, but their authors often do - I look for signs in these good poems of the ability of their authors to repeat the trick, which is to say evidence of a natural gift for writing verses.
	www.blinking-eye.co.uk /pages/don-paterson.php (661 words)

	Year 5 at Rochedale State School have been studying one of Australia's greatest poets, Andrew Barton Paterson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Andrew Barton Paterson was born on 17 February, 1864, at Narambla in New South Wales.
		Paterson was feeling confined by his office job and in 1890 wrote "The Man from Snowy River" and "The Geebung Polo Club" which reflected his love of polo.
		Paterson wrote a song and called it "Waltzing Matilda" but sold the rights to it to Angus and Robertson in 1903 because he didn't particularly like it.
	www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au /banjo.htm (858 words)

	Books \| Flints and sparks
		Paterson is playing a game with us, but it's not necessarily the one you might think.
		In a poem such as "Prologue" from God's Gift, the cocksureness has a kind of rolling Rab C Nesbitt gait to it: "A poem is a little church, remember, / you, its congregation, I its cantor;...
		Paterson's interrogation of the poetic impulse really takes wing with "The Alexandrian Library, Part III", which continues a sequence from his two earlier collections.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4796905-111749,00.html (864 words)

	LitKicks: Paterson
		Ginsberg's Paterson is strikingly similar to Jack Kerouac's home town of Lowell, Massachussetts, and this may have been a factor in the close friendship these two writers shared.
		Paterson was the scene of an important labor uprising in 1913.
		Paterson is mentioned in Bob Dylan's song 'Hurricane,' about the boxer Hurricane Rubin Carter who was arrested for a murder that took place in a Paterson bar.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=Paterson (624 words)

	The Poetry Library \| News \| Poetry Scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		They infantilise our art: chicken-soup anthologies full of lousy poems; silly workshop exercises where you write a poem in the voice of your socks; ultra- 'accessible' poetry programs, where the general public text in poems to be read out on the show.
		The poem starts as wholly yours and slowly ceases to become so; the process is one of gradual publication, gradual exposure, gradually reading the poem as if it was someone else's, because your aim is to make it someone else's.
		Towards the end, the poem's consummation, the blue cold eye is completing the work unaided, according to the poem's by-then fully realised interior logic, not the poet?s.
	www.poetrylibrary.org.uk /news/poetryscene?id=20 (5617 words)

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		Whether Paterson himself did the adaptation, or whether the adaptation was done by the composer is not certain.
		The story of the poem is of two children who hear the sounds of the bell-birds and, because of the beautiful chime-like quality of the sound, imagine a fairies' wedding.
		In the ballads and poetry of Banjo Paterson are captured the spirit of the Australian Outback, and the essences of the bushmen and women who pioneered it.
	education.deakin.edu.au /music_ed/history/bellbirds (2266 words)

	Rhyme Lord - [Sunday Herald]
		Paterson once said it takes him on average a year and 50 drafts to complete a poem.
		Paterson grew up in a house that was musical rather than bookish.
		In spite of Burns – whose poems Paterson has edited – Scotland is not a place you associate with carnality.
	www.sundayherald.com /40644 (1234 words)

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		Poems are written about love and romance, inspirational matters, friendships.
		Poems forbidden from being copied and used for commercial purposes without the written consent of the author.
		If you want to post your own poems to our online poetry collection and participate in our online writing workshops, then you can register and pay $1.25 per month to participate at www.voicesnet.org/poetryforumreg.aspx.
	www.voicesnet.com /sadpoems/poempoetry61842.htm (419 words)

	"Banjo" Paterson
		Andrew Barton Paterson (later to use the pseudonym of "The Banjo" for his magazine writings; an alias derived from the name of a racehorse the family owned) was born of pioneering stock, near Orange in New South Wales, on 17 February 1864.
		In 1889 Paterson published, at his own expense, a pamphlet of social ideals, Australia for the Australians, with an underlying focus on individual and national self-sufficiency and reliance.
		Paterson was caught up in colonial Australia's commitment to the unfortunate Boer War, becoming a war correspondent.
	www.alphalink.com.au /~eureka/banjo.htm (1187 words)

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		I will start my comments on poems with this one, not specially because it is probably the first poem I ever had published, but because it was published in The Bulletin in 1957, and because it is what may be termed an anti-city poem.
		I do not wish to imply that poems meant to be read cannot be performed, and certainly not that poems intended to be read do not depend at all on the sounds which readers of poems hear, in a kind of ghostly way, as they read.
		The other trope in the poem (Paterson's poem, that is, not mine), and in a very confused way in the consciousness of many Australians, is the country good, city bad, axiom which has a very long history indeed.
	www.users.bigpond.com /rghaypms/Nprose/poemcomm01.htm (4596 words)

	Eleni Sikelianos: Review of The California Poem and The Book of Jon by Karla Kelsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In his preface to Paterson, Williams tells us that “The thing was to use the multiple facets which a city presented as representatives for comparable facets of contemporary thought thus to be able to objectify the man himself as we know him and love him and hate him” (preface xiii).
		He is not interested in Paterson as a place in and of itself; his interest is in the extent to which the place can be made to serve as a map of man’s mind.
		The task of the poem is, as the poem’s opening tells us, “to let go what we knew/ to not be tight, but/ toney; to find a world, a word/ we didn’t know”(9).
	webdelsol.com /Double_Room/issue_five/Eleni_Sikelianos.html (2585 words)

	Don Paterson
		Paterson is a fiercely ambitious and erudite poet whose work is both strongly formal in the MacNeicean mode whilst keeping its eye on the Zeitgeist in incorporating postmodernist elements.
		Paterson often invokes MacNeice and when he is writing in formal stanzas his lyric gift is undeniable.
		The conflict between his Paterson's MacNeicean lyric streak and the postmodernist demands of the age is not yet resolved.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors?p=auth206 (804 words)

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		Paterson - the city to which William Carlos Williams gave voice through poetry more than a half century ago - is being seen through fresh eyes.
		Paterson and the popular mountain overlook were already familiar to future teacher Edward Adzima, 57, before he took the course.
		Nekola found Williams' "Paterson" intriguing but nearly impenetrable when she was a student, with all its symbolism, use of local geography and the poet's yearning to put language to a modern, industrialized city.
	www.bergen.com /page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MDYmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY2OTMxMzQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkz (1053 words)

	Australia's Bard @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Paterson took up his pen again and began to write, not a letter this time but a little gem of a ballad, for he had a sideline writing humor and verse for a popular weekly magazine under a pen name, "the Banjo"—a name he borrowed from a racehorse his family used to own.
		While Banjo Paterson's works captured the hearts and minds of his countrymen and helped define the Australian bush for the rest of the world, Banjo's friend and colleague Henry Lawson (his most famous work is "The Drover's Wife") is usually considered a finer writer.
		In 1892 Paterson, Lawson, and a few of their colleagues carried on a lively exchange for three months in the Bulletin magazine, discussing the joys and perils of bush life in verse.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0408/feature1 (1296 words)

	Don Paterson, TS Eliot Lecture (Guardian Text)
		A poem is just a little machine for remembering itself; a poem makes a fetish of its memorability.
		They infantilise our art: chicken-soup anthologies full of lousy poems; silly workshop exercises where you write a poem in the voice of your socks; ultra-"accessible" poetry programs, where the general public text - in poems to be read out on the show.
		Or to put it with mind-numbing dullness: the process of the poem is that of a single unifying new idea being driven through the productive resistance of the form proposed by the marriage of two previously estranged or unrelated things.
	www.greatworks.org.uk /poems/dp.html (2280 words)

	Jeannie Livingston Hubbard Denig
		Eliza was born in 1800, and married Charles Paterson Livingston eldest son of Henry Livingston and Jane Mc.
		She said that everybody knew that H.L. wrote the poem, & when she was a child she had been invited to spend Christmas with the Livingston children & grandfather had read the poem to them -- as his own.
		Jane's first hand stories were NOT of hearing Henry read the poem, but of being read the poem as a child by both her parents, who both told her that Henry had written it.
	www.iment.com /maida/familytree/henry/xmas/witnesses/jlhd.htm (3551 words)

	Australian Writer Banjo Paterson
		Paterson was the eldest child of Andrew Bogle Paterson, an immigrant to Australia in 1850, and Rose Isabella (nee Barton).
		Paterson was admitted as a solicitor in August 1886.
		Banjo was known not only for the song Waltzing Matilda, but also for his attempt to improve the lives of his fellow Australians by exposing their hardships to the public.
	www.alldownunder.com /oz-v/banjo-paterson (799 words)

	Poetry Daily Feature: Don Paterson - Landing Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963.
		Ceaselessly inquiring, Don Paterson discovers the love of a son, a talking book, the voices of a wreckage left in the fl box.
		A perfect blend of light and dark humor, his poems combine the mordant with the celebratory, the sweetness of the heart with all the bitter taste of experience.
	www.poems.com /landipat.htm (367 words)

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