We entitled this collection “The New Williams” because we thought it would be particularly fruitful to bring new interpretations of Williams into context with one another, forcing them to fight, bicker, and challenge each other in order to say something meaningful about Williams’s life and literary works. And since the William Carlos Williams Review is the journal that drives the field of Williams-Studies, the premise of the collection sought to gather the best new work on Williams’s poetry, fiction, drama, and critical writing. This special issue, therefore, returns to some of the major themes in the history of criticism on Williams’s work—his Spanish heritage, his frustration with European culture, his complicated (putting it mildly) views on women, sex, and romance, and his prosody—while also introducing new discourses—trans- and post-humanism, object studies, animal studies, metahistory—to the field. Although the topics and our contributors’ approaches to them are disparate, in some...
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