William Carlos. Williams

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Georgia

(American Poets Project #14)

"No poetry is more fresh, more immediate, more deftly challenging," writes editor Robert Pinsky. "William Carlos Williams is at the center of one of poetry's greatest historical flowerings." A poet of astonishing range and inventiveness, Williams was at once a daring formal innovator, one of the band of modernists who transformed American poetry, and an intimate, sometimes savagely frank chronicler of the life and landscape of his native New Jersey.

From the beginning he pursued an independent course, creating a diverse and unfailingly vital body of work, from the hard-edged experiments ofSpring and Allto the fluent lyricism of "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower." His influence on generations of poets has been indelible, and as this masterful new selection demonstrates, his poems retain their capacity to astonish and delight.

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William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems

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Maine

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

One of the most original and widely imitated poets of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) wrote verse firmly rooted in concrete experience and the particulars of everyday life. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, Williams worked in the idiom of modern American speech ― unlike his friend and mentor, Ezra Pound ― and his poems are redolent with a warmth and generosity of spirit. The Beat poets were particularly impressed with the accessibility of his language, and Williams's widely quoted dictum, "No ideas but in things," influenced a generation of American poets.
This fine selection offers readers the opportunity to study and enjoy the richness and variety of Williams's early work. More than 70 poems, published between 1917 and 1921, include "Peace on Earth," "Tract," "El Hombre," "Danse Russe," "Keller Gegen Dom," "Willow Poem," "Queen-Anne's-Lace," "Portrait of a Lady," "The Widow's Lament in Springtime," and many others.

Early Poems

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Texas

The collected later poems 

Walt. Whitman

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

Highlights of America's great classic. Illustrated with over 130 photographs.

The Illustrated Leaves of Grass

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Illinois

William Carlos Williams And The Language of Poetry

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New Jersey

English

Kora in Hell / Spring and All / the Descent of Winter / the Great American Novel / a Novelette and Other Prose

Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he later would follow, experimenting freely, boldly searching for a new kind of prose style to express "the power of the imagination to hold human beings to life and propel them onward."

The prose-poem improvisations (Kora in Hell) . . . the interweaving of prose and poetry in alternating passages (Spring and All and The Descent of Winter) . . . an antinovel whose subject is the impossibility of writing "The Great American Novel" in America . . . automatic writing (A Novelette) . . . these are the challenges which Williams accepted and brilliantly met in his early work.

Imaginations

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Michigan

The Death-Bed Edition

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic vision that took the nation as its subject. Unlike many other editions of Leaves of Grass, which reproduce various short, early versions, this Modern Library Paperback Classics "Death-bed" edition presents everything Whitman wrote in its final form, and includes newly commissioned notes.

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William Carlos. Williams

William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems

William Carlos Williams

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

Early Poems

William Carlos Williams

The collected later poems

Walt. Whitman; William Carlos. Williams

The Illustrated Leaves of Grass

Demetres Tryphonopoulos

William Carlos Williams And The Language of Poetry

William Carlos Williams; Webster Schott (Editor)

Imaginations

Walt Whitman; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)

Leaves of Grass