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(1929-2008) Publisher, writer, poet. Jonathan Williams lived in Manhattan, New York, during the 1950s. Williams was the founder of the Jargon Society, a small publishing house.

Full Name

Jonathan Williams

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1929

BIRTH

Jonathan Chamberlain Williams was born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1929.

1950

RESIDENCE

Williams lived in Manhattan, New York, during the mid-1950s.

1959

LITWORK

The Empire Finals at Verona
Highlands, North Carolina: Jargon.

1962

LITWORK

Elegies and Celebrations
Highlands, North Carolina: Jargon.

1964

LITWORK

Lines about Hills above Lakes
Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Roman Books.

1964

LITWORK

Lines about Hills above Lakes
Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Roman Books.

1968

LITWORK

Descant on Rawthey's Madrigal: Conversations with Basil Bunting.
Lexington, Kentucky: Gnomon Press.

1969

LITWORK

An Ear in Bartram's Tree

1971

LITWORK

Blues & Roots, Rue and Bluets: A Garland from the Appalachians
New York: Grossman.

1972

LITWORK

The Loco Logodaedalus in Situ

1977

LITWORK

Untinears & Antennae for Maurice Ravel
Saint Paul, Minnesota: Truck Press.

1979

LITWORK

Elite/Elate Poems

1982

LITWORK

Get Hot or Get Out: A Selection of Poems, 1957-1981
Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press.

2008

DEATH

Jonathan Williams died in Highlands, North Carolina, in 2008.

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