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Collected Poems: 1939-62 v. 2

William Carlos Williams

Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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  • William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), a great contemporary of Pound, H.D., Wyndham Lewis and others, is one of the fathers of American free verse. Born in Rutherford, New Jersey, he began writing poetry while still a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he made the decision to become both ... read more
    Praise for William Carlos Williams 'William Carlos Williams, paediatrician by day, literary giant of the evening hours, is one of the great experimentalists of twentieth century American poetry, and this summer we can all enjoy a reprint of his long poem Paterson, named after a town in New Jersey, newly reimagined in this wild, invigorating, free-form, jazz-like patchwork of prose and poetry, whose language veers from the headily philosophical to the footloose and wayward.'
    Michael Glover, The Tablet

    'This is an essential book for anyone who is serious about poetry.'
    Steven Hanson, the Manchester Review of Books
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