The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939

by William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz (Editor), Christopher MacGowan

Overview

Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard—."

So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811211871
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	09/17/1991
Series:	New Directions Paperbook
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	604
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.

Editorial Reviews

The second volume of The Collected Poems contains The Wedge (1944), The Clouds (1948), The Pink Church (1949), The Desert Music (1954), Journey to Love (1955), and the Pulitzer prize-winning Pictures from Brueghel (1962), plus uncollected poems grouped chronologically between the titled works. Appendixes include ``A Note on the Text,'' ``Annotations,'' ``Tables of Contents for The Broken Span, Selected Poems, and Collected Later Poems ,'' and two translations from And Spain Sings. Indexes of titles and first lines for volumes 1 ( LJ 10/1/86) and 2 are included. An excellently edited volume of a major American poet; highly recommended. Walter Waring, Kalamazoo Coll., Mich.

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