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*From Late Spring to Fall, Jargon shifts to another rural, mountainous retreat - a small 17th century cottage, Corn Close, in Cumbria, England thanks to patron, Donald Anderson.

**Webster's Unabridged defines the possible derivation of curmudgeon from the medieval Curmegan, perhaps equivalent to French coeur méchant, evil heart.

***Winston Leyland's Gay Sunshine was one of the first major American gay literary magazines.

Alpert, Barry. "Jonathan Williams -- an interview." Vort. 2.1 (1973): 54-75.

Anderson, Elliott, et al eds. "On Black Mountain Review" by Robert Creeley The Little Magazine in America: a Modern Documentary History. Yonkers: Pushcart Press. 1978: 248-261.

Anderson, Sherwood. Six Mid-American Chants. Highlands: The Jargon Society. 1964.

"The Author Speaks." Publishers Weekly 213.26 (June 15, 1978): 36.

Books Published Using Materials from The Jargon Society Archives 1983-1991. n.p., n.d.

Cory, Jim. "High Art & Low Life: an Interview with Jonathan Williams." James White Review. 11.1 (1994): 1, 3.

Dana, Robert, ed. Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick American Publishers. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 1986: 187-226.

Davenport, Guy. "Jonathan Williams." Geography of the Imagination. San Francisco: North Point Press. 1981: 180-189.

Dawson, Fielding. The Black Mountain Book. Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press. 1991.

Duberman, Martin. Black Mountain: an Exploration in Community. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1972.

Ephemera from The Jargon Society. Collection of the author.

Henderson, Bill. "A Quarter Century of The Jargon Society: an Interview with Jonathan Williams" by William Corbett. The Art of Literary Publishing: Editors on Their Craft. Yonkers: Pushcart Press. 1976, 1980: 116-133.

Jaffe, James. Jonathan Williams: a Bibliographical Checklist of his Writings, 1950-1988. Haverford: James S. Jaffe Rare Books. 1989.

Jargon at Forty: 1951 - 1991, an Exhibition and Celebration. Buffalo: Poetry Rare Book Collection, State University of New York. 1991.

Johnson, Ronald. "Nearly Twenty Questions." Conjunctions 7 (1985): 224-38.

Leibowitz, Herbert. "Blues & Roots, Rue & Bluets, The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann." New York Times Book Review. (November 21, 1971): 54, 56, 58.

Lindau, Bill. "Jonathan Williams Publishes Works of the 'Avant Garde'" Asheville Citizen Times (March 31, 1957) North Carolina Clipping File Through 1975, # 388. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

McFee, Michael. "'Reckless and Doomed' Jonathan Williams and Jargon." Small Press (September - October 1985): 101-106.

Patterson, Tom. "Fun and Doom: Jonathan Williams, Maverick Poet of the Nantahalas." Brown's Guide to Georgia 8.6 (June 1980): 34-39, 108-114.

Rodgers, Joan S. "At Last, the Jargon Society has a Place to Call Home." Winston-Salem Journal. (January 11, 1985) North Carolina Clipping File, 1976-1989, # 101.

Rooke, Leon. "Poet at the Breakfast Table." The North Carolina Anvil. (November 4, 1967) North Carolina Clipping File Through 1975, # 394-395. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Skelt, Peterjon, ed. "Jonathan Williams." Prospect into Breath: Interviews with North and South Writers. Twickenham, Great Britain: North and South. 1991: 44-58.

Williams, Jonathan. "Bottom of the Forty-Fifth...Coming in to Pitch." The Magpie's Bagpipe. San Francisco: North Point Press. 1982: 3-5.

------------------- "Calling All Lamed-Vovniks and Jarring all Jargonauts. Highlands, Jargon: Halloween 1991.

------------------- "Cloches a Travers Les Feuilles." Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series. Detroit, MI: Gale Research. 1990. 12: 339-358.

------------------- A Complete Listing of Jargon Books (1951/1960). Highlands: The Jargon Society. n.d.

-------------------- Jargon: 42 Years on the Job on the Run in the Land of Nod. [Highlands: The Jargon Society, 1993.]

-------------------- The Jargon Society (catalog). [Highlands: The Jargon Society. 1987.]

-------------------- The Jargon Society Confronts the New-Age Amiability of Dummyland. Highland: The Jargon Society. 1994.

-------------------- The Jargon Society 1951-75 (catalog). Kendal, Great Britain: n.p, n.d.

-------------------- The Jargon Society, Springtime 1991 (40 Years on the Job in the Land of Nod!) [Highlands]: The Jargon Society. 1991.

-------------------- "Jonathan C. Williams Interviews J. Chamberlain Williams" Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1984. 5: 88-92.

-------------------- "Jonathan Williams: a Nest of Testimonials." [Highlands, The Jargon Society.] n.d.

-------------------- Joyfull News Out of the Newfounde World. Millerton, NY: The Jargon Society. Harvest 1975.

-------------------- O Tempura! O Morays! [Highlands: The Jargon Society. 1991.]

-------------------- Quote, Unquote. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. 1989.

-------------------- "Parsons Weems & Vachel Lindsay Rent a Volkswagen and Go Looking for Lamedvovnik #37; or, Travails in America Deserta." Arts in Society (1965): 370-389.

-------------------- Red/Gray. Black Mountain: The Jargon Society. 1952.

-------------------- Uncle Gus Flaubert Rates The Jargon Society in One Hundred One Laconic Présalé Sage Sentences. 8th Hanes Lecture. Chapel Hill: Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book, Rare Book Collection, University Library, University of North Carolina. 1989.

-------------------- Vintage 1994! - It Has to Be Better. Highlands: The Jargon Society. 1994.

-------------------- "A White Cloud in the Eye of a White Horse: Crafts of the Southern Appalachians." The Magpie's Bagpipe. San Francisco: North Point Press. 1982: 168-179.

Williams, William Carlos. Letter to Jonathan Williams, September 8, 1956. Jargon Archives. Poetry/Rare Books Collection, The State University of New York at Buffalo.


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