The Wedge (poetry collection)

Despite the poet's inquiries and the nature of the requests that prompted him to approach them, several publishers rejected The Wedge.

The book was eventually handset printed by Henry Duncan and Wightman Williams at Cummington Press and bound surreptitiously on the premises and at the expense of one of the publishers who had previously rejected it.

The book is dedicated to poet Louis Zukofsky, who helped Williams revise and rearrange the poems for publication.

)[1] He wrote to poet and publisher James Laughlin in 1943, "Paterson is coming along—this book is a personal finger-practicing to assist me in that: but that isn't all it is.

He reduced the book's material, eliminated the prose selections but added an introduction based on an address he gave at the New York Public Library in October 1943.