Jonathan Williams (1929-2008)

A Bibliography

• Garbage Litters the Iron Face of the Sun's Child, engraving by David Ruff, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1951.
• Red/Gray, drawings by Paul Ellsworth, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1951.
• Four Stoppages: A Configuration, drawings by Charles Oscar, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1953.
• The Empire Finals at Verona, collages and drawings by Fielding Dawson, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1959.
• Lord! Lord! Lord!, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1959.
• Amen/Huzza/Selah, preface by Louis Zukofsky, photographs by Williams, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1960.
• Elegies and Celebrations, preface by Robert Duncan, photographs by Aaron Siskind and Williams, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1962.
• Emblems for the Little Dells, & Nooks & Corners of Paradise (includes a reproduction of a page of Samuel Palmer's sketchbook of 1824), Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1962.
• In England's Green & (A Garland & Clyster) (poems), drawings by Philip Van Aver, Auerhahn (San Francisco, CA), 1962.
• LTDG (Lullabies Twisters Gibbers Drags) (poems), covers by R. B. Kitaj, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1963, reprinted with new introduction, Design Department, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 1967.
• Lines about Hills above Lakes (prose), foreword by John Wain, drawings by Barry Hall, Roman Books (Ft. Lauderdale, FL), 1964.
• Petite Country Concrete Suite (poems), Fenian Head Centre Press, 1965.
• Twelve Jargonelles from the Herbalist's Notebook (poems), graphic design by Ann Wilkinson, Design Department, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 1965.
• Ten Jargonelles from the Herbalist's Notebook (poems), graphic design by Arthur Korant, Graduate Graphic Design Program, University of Illinois (Champaign, IL), 1966.
• Four Jargonelles from the Herbalist's Notebook (poems), Lowell House Printers, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), 1966.
• Paean to Dvorak, Deemer & McClure (poems), Dave Haselwood, 1966.
• Eight Jargonelles from the Herbalist's Notebook (poems), graphic design by Dave Ahlsted, Design Department, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 1967.
• Affilati attrezzi per i giardini di Catullo (selected poems in English and Italian), translations by Leda Sartini Mussio, drawings by James McGarrell, Roberto Lerici Editori (Milan, Italy), 1967, published as Sharp Tools for Catullan Gardens, introductory note by Guy Davenport, Fine Arts Department, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 1968.
• Mahler Becomes Politics . . . Beisbol (poems), silk-screen prints by Kitaj, Marlborough Fine Arts (London, England), 1967, revised and enlarged edition published as Mahler, Grossman (New York, NY), 1969.
• 50! Eplphytes,-taphs,-tomes,-grams,-thets! 50!, Poet & Printer (London, England), 1967.
• Les Six Pak ("disposable six-pak xerox edition"), Aspen Institute (New York, NY), 1967.
• A French 75! (Salut Milhaudious), Dave Haselwood, 1967.
• Futura 15: Polycotyledonous Poems, Edition Hansjoerg Mayer (Stuttgart, Germany), 1967.
• The Lucidities: Sixteen in Visionary Company (poems), drawings by John Furnival, Turret Books (London, England), 1968.
• Descant on Rawthey's Madrigal: Conversations with Basil Bunting, Gnomon Press (Lexington, KY), 1968.
• Ripostes (poems), silk-screen print and design by William Katz, Edition Domberger (Stuttgart, Germany), 1969.
• On Arriving at the Same Age as Jack Benny, Finial Press (Dent, Cumbria, England), 1969.
• An Ear in Bartram's Tree: Selected Poems, 1957-1967, introduction by Davenport, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1969, New Directions (New York, NY), 1972.
• Six Rusticated, Wall-Eyed Poems, graphic realizations by Dana Atchley, Press of the Maryland Institute of Art (Baltimore, MD), 1969.
• The New Architectural Monuments of Baltimore City, lithographs by John Sparks, typography by Robert Gotsch, Press of the Maryland Institute of Art (Baltimore, MD), 1970.
• The Apocryphal, Oracular Yeah-Sayings of the Ersatz Mae West (poems), lithographs by Raoul Middleman, Press of the Maryland Institute of Art, 1970 (not released).
• (Editor) Edward Dahlberg: A Tribute (prose and poetry collection; festschrift for Dahlberg's seventieth birthday), David Lewis, 1970.
• Blues & Roots/Rue & Bluets: A Garland for the Appalachians (poems), photographs by Nicholas Dean, graphic realizations by Atchley, Grossman (New York, NY), 1971.
• (Author of preface) The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1971.
• Strung out with Elgar on a Hill, plates by Peter Bodner, Finial Press (Dent, Cumbria, England), 1971.
• (With Thomas Meyer) Epitaph, typography by Benvensite, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1972.
• (With Thomas Meyer) Fruits Confits, decorations by Gardner, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1972.
• The Loco-Logodaedalist in Situ: Selected Poems, 1968-1970, embellishments by Joe Tilson, Grossman (New York, NY), 1972.
• Pairidaeza, lithographs by Ian Gardner, typography by Ronald Pearson, Blue Funnel Press, 1973.
• Imaginary Postcards (Clints Grikes Gripes Glints), drawings by Tom Phillips, typography by Asa Benvensite, Trigram Press, 1973.
• Much Further out Than You Thought, drawings by Furnival, Turret Books (London, England), 1973.
• (With Thomas Meyer) Gone into When (seven epitaphs), William Katz, 1973.
• Selected Essays (Poeticules Criticasters Kitschdiggers & Just-folks), edited by Herbert Leibowitz, (New York, NY), 1973.
• (Editor and contributor) Epitaphs for Lorine, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1973.
• Adventures with a Twelve-inch Pianist beyond the Blue Horizon, photographs by David Colley, Finial Press (Dent, Cumbria, England), 1973.
• Five from up T'Dale, Finial Press (Dent, Cumbria, England), 1974.
• Who Is Little Enis?, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1974.
• (Editor and author of preface) Lyle Bonge, The Sleep of Reason, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1974.
• Hasidic Exclamation upon Stevie Smith's Poem "Not Waving but Drowning," University of Connecticut Library (Storrs, CT), 1974.
• My Quaker-Atheist Friend (poems), drawings by Ian Gardner, privately printed, 1974.
• (Author of introduction) John Clarence Laughlin, The Personal Eye, Aperture (Millerton, NY), 1974.
• Hot What? (prose), Mole Press, 1975.
• A Wee Tot for Catullus (poems), Moschatel Press, 1975.
• A Celestial Centennial Reverie for Charles E. Ives (poems), Donald B. Anderson, 1975.
• Gists from a Presidential Report on Hardcornponeography, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1975.
• GAy BCs, Finial Press (Dent, Cumbria, England), 1976.
• In the Field at the Solstice, Finial Press (Dent, Cumbria, England), 1976.
• Untinears & Antennae for Maurice Ravel (poems), Truck Press (St. Paul, MN), 1977.
• An Omen for Stevie Smith (poems), Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University (New Haven, CT), 1977.
• Super-Duper Zuppa Inglese (and Other Trifles from the Land of Stodge) (poems), drawings by Barbara Jones, Aggie Weston's Editions, 1977.
• (Editor with Allen Ginsberg and contributor) Madeira and Toasts for Basil Bunting's Seventy-fifth Birthday, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1977.
• A Blue Ridge Weather Prophet Makes Twelve Stitches in Time on the Twelfth Day of Christmas, illustrations by Carolyn Whitesel, Gnomon Press (Lexington, KY), 1977.
• A Hairy Coat Near Yanworth Yat (poems), North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1978.
• (Editor and author of introduction) "I Shall Save One Land Unvisited": Eleven Southern Photographers, Gnomon Press (Lexington, KY), 1978.
• Portrait Photographs (photographs and prose commentary), Gnomon Press (Lexington, KY), 1979.
• Shankum Naggum (poems), Friends of the Library, North Carolina Wesleyan College, 1979.
• The Delian Seasons (poems), Topia Press, 1979.
• St. Swithin's Swivet (poems), Circle Press, 1979.
• Glees, Swarthy Monotonies, Rince Cochon, and Chozzerai for Simon (poems), drawings by Furnival, DBA Editions, 1979.
• Elite/Elate Poems: Selected Poems, 1971-1975, photographs by Guy Mendes, Jargon Society (Highlands, NC), 1979.
• Homage Umbrage Quibble and Chicane (poems), drawings by Furnival, DBA Editions, 1980.
• Jonathan Williams--A Poet Collects: February 27-April 30, 1981, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC), 1981.
• The Magpies Bagpipe: Selected Essays of Jonathan Williams, North Point Press (San Francisco, CA), 1982.
• Get Hot or Get Out: A Selection of Poems, 1957-1981, Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ), 1982.
• April 19, Lexington Nocturne: A Poem, as interpreted by Keith Smith, Visual Studies Workshop Press (Rochester, NY), 1983.
• Get Hot or Get Out. Audio Cassette. Washington, DC: Watershed Tapes, 1984.
  
• Aposiopeses: Odds and Ends, Granary Books (Minneapolis, MN), 1988.
• (Presenter) Uncle Gus Flaubert Rates the Jargon Society: In One Hundred One Laconic Presale Sage Sentences, Hanes Foundation, Rare Books Collection, University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC), 1989.
• No-nonse-nse: Limericks (Invented in Ireland c. 1765), Meta-fours (Invented during the Non-Summer of 1985 in Lower Stodgedale) and Clerihews (Invented in 1890 by Edmund Clerihew Bently) 1993 by a Perdurable "True Descendent of Aristophanes and Catullus," Perishable Press (Mt. Horeb, WI), 1993.
• Krino, 1986-1996: An Anthology of Modern Irish Writing, Gill and Macmillan (Dublin, Ireland), 1996.
• (Author of essay) Harry Callahan, (photography), Aperture Foundation (New York, NY), 1999.
• A Palpable Elysium, (biography), David R. Godine (Boston, MA), 2000.
• Blackbird Dust: Essays, Poems, and Photographs, Turtle Point Press, 2000.
• Some Jazz from the Baz: Excerpts from Basil Bunting's Letters to Jonathan Williams, 1963-1985. Scaly Mountain, N.C. : Press of Otis the Lamed-Vovnik, Skywinding Farm, 2000.
• A Garden Carried in a Pocket: Letters 1964-1968. Haverford: Green Shade, 2004.
• Kinnikinnick Brand Kickapoo Joy-Juice: Meta-fours. Isla Vista, [Calif.] : Turkey Press, 2004.
• Orpington via Pratt's Bottom: JW at 75 ; a festschrift for 'Fess Williams. New York: Brown Roux, 2004.
• Jubilant Thicket: New & Selected Poems. Port Townsend, WA : Copper Canyon Press, 2005.
  

[updated from "Jonathan (Chamberlain) Williams," Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Accessed March 24 2008.]