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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Walter Scott Peterson, "[M]y âcaseâ to work upâ: William Carlos Williamsâs Paterson" (William Carlos Williams Review, Vol 41, No. 2, 2024),
Description: In â[M]y âcaseâ to work upâ: William Carlos Williamsâs Patersonâ (William Carlos Williams Review, Volume 41, Number 2, 2024), Walter Scott Peterson argues that as a physician-poet Dr. Williams approaches his poetic material very much as he approaches his patients, and that the form of Paterson in particular is intentionally and actually reminiscent of the various forms taken by the medical case narrative, or âwork-up.â
This episode concerns the poet and physician William Carlos Williams, whose mother, Raquel HÊlène Rose Hoheb Williams, was born and raised in Mayagßez, Puerto Rico. This conversation is part of the STEM to STEAM init...