![]() ![]() It is a benevolent anarchy: it must be that and if it is true art, it is. It runs counter to the sort of orderliness on which organized society apparently must be based. ![]() Art is only anarchy in juxtaposition with organized society. I must modify that statement about art and anarchy. What was missing here, was something anarchistic in the air. Williams wrote in the introduction to 27 Wagons Full of Cotton: "In my opinion art is a kind of anarchy, and the theater is a province of art. Williams serves as a stalking monument to this testament. William Burroughs once wrote the only thing that exists about a writer is what he's written, and not his so-called life. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter honored Williams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Few could write about heartbreak and madness like Williams. Some of his characters rank as the most memorable in American literature. Tennessee Williams: 27 Wagons Full of Cottonīorn in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1911, Thomas (Tennessee) Williams wrote plays, short stories, novels and poetry. ![]()
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