The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems

by William Carlos Williams

Overview

Here is a perfect little gift: the most beloved poems by the most essential American poet of the last century

Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams’s astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader—The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811227889
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	05/29/2018
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	1,047,191
Product dimensions:	3.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.30(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

"It is ever more apparent that Williams was this century’s major American poet."

Chicago Tribune

"He had a thirst for now. And he had his own beat, ‘a certain unquenchable exaltation’ as he said of his renowned wheelbarrow. The excitement the writing exuded is as contagious today as when he made his rounds ‘quickened by the life about him.’ The reader is induced to stay awake. Make contact. Look ahead."

C. D. Wright

"Possibly no modern American poem is more widely known than Williams’s ‘The Red Wheelbarrow,’ that tiny epiphany. Williams himself, not given to making high claims for his own work, considered this poem ‘quite perfect.’ If you look at the lingua franca of American poetry today—a colloquial free verse focused on visual description and meaningful anecdote—it seems clear that Williams is the twentieth-century poet who has done most to influence our very conception of what poetry should do, and how much it does not need to do."

The New York Review of Books - Adam Kirsch

"Williams is the author of the most vivid poems of modern American poetry."

Octavio Paz