Harris Feinsod [https://english.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/feinsod-harris.html] joins the podcast to talk about William Carlos Williams, his great book of 1923, Spring and All [https://www.ndbooks.com/book/spring-and-all/], and one of its strange and unforgettable poems, "To Elsie [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46485/to-elsie]."

Harris is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-poetry-of-the-americas-9780190080990?lang=en&cc=us](Oxford UP, 2017) and the co-translator (with Rachel Galvin) of Oliverio Girondo's Decals: Complete Early Poems [https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/decals-complete-early-poems] (Open Letter, 2018). Harris's articles and essays have appeared in such publications as Comparative Literature, American Literary History, English Language Notes, Modernism/modernity, The Baffler, In These Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, and Post45. You can follow Harris on Twitter [https://twitter.com/feinsod].

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Harris Feinsod on William Carlos Williams ("To Elsie")

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