The BURIED Book Club discussion

American poet William Carlos Williams has a novel, A Voyage to Pagany, reissued by New Directions in 1970. 10 ratings? A single review? UnDECKed for me by Sorrentino in Something Said.

That's not all. Sorrentino would also have your attention called to Williams's "Stecher trilogy" (which is buried) consisting of White Mule, In the Money, and The Build-Up. Gil says the trilogy "is the best fictional treatment of the immigrant 'success story' that we have in American letters. Its power, its secret power, one might almost say, lies in its ability to release the absolute meaning of cultural and financial success in the context of a narrative that is neither comic, tragic, nor satiric. This is no small thing..."

Those interested in Williams's work, both in prose and in poetry, Gil's book, Something Said, collects about 40 pages worth of his writing on WCW.

The works discussed in SS constitute a BBC of their own. Thanks for the WCW reminders.

MJ wrote: "The works discussed in SS constitute a BBC of their own. Thanks for the WCW reminders."

Yep. Should I add SS to the Great HEaps sooner or later, or are you on your way trotting thitherward? I'll be reading it piecemehl over a pair of weeks perhaps; adding stuff HERE now and then/here and there.

Under the impression Herrtino had been UNearthed already by Saint O'Brien and the GOODreads smarties. But ADD if you wish.

MJ wrote: "Under the impression Herrtino had been UNearthed already by Saint O'Brien and the GOODreads smarties. But ADD if you wish."

True. Just that this volume should be talked about and get an entry in http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "That's not all. Sorrentino would also have your attention called to Williams's "Stecher trilogy" (which is buried) consisting of White Mule, In the Money, and The Build-Up."

Shelved safely at home now, this Trilogy. I will return to Sorrentino's thoughts when I read; his orientation as to purpose, style, and assumptions on the part of Williams will be most useful. This prose is not likely to be of the sort dilettantes such as myself usually indulge in.

Perhaps next shop-trip I'll have to pick up A Voyage to Pagany, also.

Mariel's got a review of In the Money, book two of the Stecher trilogy ::

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I'm pretty sure that The Great American Novel counts as buried also, correct? Three reviews - 30 ratings - might be a bit on the higher side, but buried nonetheless (and Green Integer published!) - and, even better, sitting on a bookshelf in my home, waiting to be read.

Im reading a bio of writer-editor Robt McAlmon (who is a Buried Writer)...he and WCW were great pals and started the VIP "Little Magazine" Contact together c 1920 in NYC. When it folded, Mc, now resettled in Paris, brought out Contact editions w works by WCM, Pound, Stein, Hem , etc. ~~ WCW was a lifelong confidant.

Ronald wrote: "I'm pretty sure that The Great American Novel counts as buried also, correct?"

Most correct, Sir. Also is Yes, Mrs. Williams: A Personal Record of My Mother and Embodiment of Knowledge.