The Notebooks of David Ignatow

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. . . . not from the schools but from such a man as Mr. Ignatow, to whom language is like his skin, must we look for those innovations which will set us upon our feet in our writing--William Carlos Williams. His style shifted from realism through surrealism, to lyricism and myth--all in his quirky city tongue--but all of it bread for the living --Harvey Shapiro.