Cappucci, Paul R.

Paul Cappucci is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey. He teaches courses in American Literature, Short Fiction, and Poetry. He received his M.A. from The College of New Jersey and his Ph.D. from Drew University. He has published articles in various journals, including War, Literature and the Arts and Papers on Language and Literature.

William Carlos Williams' Poetic Response to the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike

2002 0-7734-6912-5
This is the first in-depth analysis of the ways that the 1913 Paterson silk strike influenced Williams’s early development as a modernist poet and his creation of the long poem Paterson. It will interest those who study the relationship between literature and history, the tension between art and politics, and the representation of labor and class.